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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. – Joseph Conrad	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. – James Russell Lowell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. – Henri Frdric Amiel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. – Henri Frdric Amiel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K. LeGuin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. – Luke Salisbury	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. – Frank Herbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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