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Quotes About Action

El Riesgo Siempre Vive
~ Ernest Cline
But you do realize that nearly half the people on this planet are starving, right?" I detected no malice in her voice. She sounded like she genuinely believed I might not be aware of this fact. "Yes, I know," I said defensively. "The reason so many people are starving is because we've wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? It's time to leave.
~ Ernest Cline
If you do this, you'll be personally responsible for the extinction of the human race." I went ahead and did it anyway.
~ Ernest Cline
Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.
~ Ernest Cline
There was no way I'd be able to sleep tonight, or sit through school tomorrow. I had to go now.
~ Ernest Cline
I aimed my rocket eighty-eight right into the torrent of enemy fighters and fanned the trigger on my flight stick to fire off a rapid volley of plasma bolts.
~ Ernest Cline
flying frak at a rolling Rathtar
~ Ernest Cline
Leeroy Jenkins!
~ Ernest Cline
Han will have that shield down,' Ã¢â'¬Â Aech quoted. " Ã¢â'¬ËœWe've got to give him more time!' 
~ Ernest Cline
We are coming here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and we have no more bubblegum!
~ Ernest Cline
Pfc. Leonard J. Savitskie and his driver jumped into the car and swung its .50-caliber machine gun on the Krauts. An enemy mortar opened up behind the building and Savitskie, with a hand grenade, raced from his car behind the building under small-arms fire, lobbed the grenade and destroyed mortar and crew. The one-man task force then got into his armored
~ Ernest Dupuy
Never confuse movement with action.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Never confuse movement with action.
~ Ernest Hemingway
CLASSIC American axiom warns: "Don't try to think yourself into a new way of acting: Act yourself into a new way of thinking.
~ Ernest Kurtz
Individualism as such, as the isolated action of a person alone in a social environment, must disappear in Cuba. Individualism tomorrow should be the proper utilization of the whole individual, to the absolute benefit of the community.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara
Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
~ Ernesto Sirolli
I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.
~ Ernst Junger
General" stands here for the individual who goes into action, whether freely or forcedly. Since anarchy offers him an especially favorable charge, this type is permanent today. Thus, "general" has a universal rather than a special meaning. It can be replaced ad libitum. It refers not to a profession but to a condition. The latter may also crop up in a coolie, in which case it is particularly effective.
~ Ernst Junger
Er schien uns männliche Tat, ein fröhliches Schützengefecht auf blumigen, blutbetauten Wiesen.
~ Ernst Junger
Cualquiera que sea el campo de batalla o la posición perdida sobre la que se halle, allí donde se conserva un pasado y se debe combatir por un futuro, no hay acción que esté perdida
~ Ernst Junger
Un uomo è quello che ha commesso. Se dimentica è un bicchiere messo alla rovescia, un vuoto chiuso.
~ Erri De Luca
There can be no doubt that the Anarchist Idea, denying government, is by its very nature opposed to violence, which is the essence of every authoritarian system - the mode of action of every government
~ Errico Malatesta
Bisogna dunque tendere a ciò che si vuole, facendo quel che si può.
~ Errico Malatesta