Quotes About Action

There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

Okay, I said. But remember, you can't fix everything in the world for everybody. "However," said Ricky, "you can't do anything at all unless you begin. Haven't I heard you say that once or twice, or maybe a hundred times?

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.

Be ignited, or be gone.

And I thought: I shall remember this all my life. The peril, the running, the howling of the dogs, the smothering. Then the happiness—of action, of leaping. Then the green sweetness of distance. And the trees: their thickness and their compassion, all around.

It does no good to bark at the television, I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped.

Understand from the first this certainty. Butterflies don't write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn't mean they don't know, in their own way, what they are. That they don't know they are alive—that they don't feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans.

Okay, I said. But remember, you can't fix everything in the world for everybody. "However," said Ricky, "you can't do anything at all unless you begin.

Butterflies don't write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn't mean they don't know, in their own way, what they are. That they don't know they are alive—that they don't feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world.

What does it mean... that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it?

else the responsibility for your life.

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.

Who can open the door who does not reach for the latch? Who can travel the miles who does not put one foot in front of the other, all attentive to what presents itself continually?

determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.

And look! look! look! I think those little fish better wake up and dash themselves away from the hopeless future that is bulging toward them. And probably, if they don't waste time looking for an easier world, they can do it

Quickly, then, get up, put on your coat, leave your desk!

Brother Patrick's rosy face turned white. "Make haste!" he said to the other monks. "Gather the books and hide.

He knocked on the doors. "Put on your life belts at once and come up to the boat deck!" he called. Men and women stumbled out of their rooms.

Come on, let's go watch!" Annie said. She started down the rope ladder.

The ninja master.

Hurry! Go! Go!" Jack called to Morning

He charged down the hill. He leaped to his

Suddenly, the front of the ship dipped down into the sea. Deck chairs started to slide past Jack and Annie.

Human saliva contains histatins, which speed wound closure independent of their antibacterial action.