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No Action Quotes

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.
- Paulo Coelho

I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.
- Sherman Austin

There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all.
- Anne Bradstreet

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
- Tony Robbins

No action is without its side effects.
- Barry Commoner

Right now, I'd be willing to kiss Ed through a bag. So it's true what they say about teenage hormones. It seems I'm raging out of control. It's not very Jane Austen of me but it feels pretty good.
The problem is, Ed's acting all Jane Austen on me and he won't stop talking. Shut up, I want to say. All talk and no action is really kind of frustrating.
- Cath Crowley

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
- Jennifer Crusie

No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?
- Robertson Davies

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action.
- Graham Greene

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
- Eckhart Tolle

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
- Jerry Goldsmith

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.
- Joe Heck

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
- James Hutton

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
- Bo Jackson

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
- John D Macdonald

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
- Karen Mccarthy

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
- John Olver

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
- Anthony Robbins

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
- David Lee Roth

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