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
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“And every man ought to say to himself, “Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
No outward thing - nothing, nobody from without - can hurt me inside, psychologically. I recognized that I could only be hurt… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man.” — Gopi Krishna Copy Share Image
“One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometime people Intention and Action really don't match and always blame others. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
“But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Inaction is a luxury, one that many take for granted (and take pills to deal with). Action comes from hardship and necessity,… — Kyle Eschenroeder Copy Share Image
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times,… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image