Action Quote by Andre Gide

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of…

— Roxane Gay

Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

— Frederick Lenz

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

— James Weldon Johnson

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

— William James

The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it…

— Noam Chomsky

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

— Stephen King