5,384 Quotes About Action

I've got to believe if it was reported to us we would have tried to take the appropriate action and at least document the incident.

I commend President Bush for taking this decisive action to remove an official who clearly did not have the qualifications to lead the relief effort and replace him with an individual who can perform in a crisis,

It introduces a little more uncertainty into the marketplace in the sense that most people were expecting some sort of action by the end of December at the latest.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.

Ultimately, this is a national issue that demands the full attention of the President and Congress, ... Wisconsin consumers have already been overcharged $88 million by the oil companies - and prices are continuing to go up. It is time for the President or someone in Washington to take action against the Texas oil companies who are trying to use a national tragedy to enlarge their profits.

He didn't feel we had enough information then to take action.

We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos