No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should feel an urgency about our environment and what's been done to it by human action and inaction. I wouldn't say… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Better to have spent a life reaching for a dream that never came true, than to have slept through a life that… — Samantha Pickreign Copy Share Image
There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
