#action

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#administration #become #becomes #i #law

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#action #begins #home #how #much

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#change #get #i #less #lot

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#actions #guidelines #i #know #laws

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#nowhere #reactionary #right

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#action #every #every man #him #man

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#bit #bored #country #dramatic #engaged