Quotes About Action

so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man.

Rather than the reflective theology of the scholar or classroom, his is a "task theology," the theologizing that takes place in the marketplace

Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the coolest thing I've ever done! The foursome, only slightly the worse for wear, stood on the tarmac of the small airfield outside Milan, transferring their luggage from the limo to Jonah's jet for the flight back to Florence. You didn't do anything, yo, Jonah seethed. It was done to all of us by the freak show with the nerve to complain that the family branches are too violent!

Be the Ambulance. Make toast.

There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's

or the fool who does something stupid and gets everybody killed.

Vlad always told me that woulda-shoulda-coulda is a sucker's game.

On with the chase.

It's funny—I've forgotten everything about my own football career, but I know the game itself. When I shoot footage of the action on the field, I get what the players

And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.

Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do believe, as demonstrated by their actions. A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.

You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.

Es wäre wenig in der Welt unternommen worden, wenn man nur immer auf den Ausgang gesehen hätte.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Ideas have consequences.

Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We dream of it, but they act.

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action.

I'm not involved, not involved, I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

She was more astute than I at seeing the distant cloud of a quarrel when it was still no bigger than a man's hand, and she would usually take the right avoiding action, for when an embrace was over the quarrel was usually over too—for that occasion at least.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

Excitement is simple: excitement is a situation, a single event. It mustn't be wrapped up in thoughts, similes, metaphors. A simile is a form of reflection, but excitement is of the moment when there is no time to reflect. Action can only be expressed by a subject, a verb and an object, perhaps rhythm -- little else. Even an adjective slows the pace or tranquilizes the nerve.