#action

The gods behold all righteous actions. ↗

— Ovid

#behold #gods #righteous

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. ↗

— George Chapman

#inherit #make #nothing #our #truly

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going? ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#claims #countries #down #go #going

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#arise #choice #decision #human #loss

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year. ↗

— Chris Christie

#am #balance #begin #budget #complaining

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#confuse #democracy #idea #images #often

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. ↗

— Albert Claude

#achieve #action #asleep #awake #cells

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #already #believes #committed #heart

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#action #actor #being #care #could