#action

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#being #best #comes #country #earth

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#another #extreme #knows #leaps #nothing

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#drama #new #novel #resolve #same

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

#body #consequences #critical #educating #evolved

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded. ↗

— John Olver

#ever #expanded #extreme #factions #greatly

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#get #make #music #people #reaction

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people. ↗

— George Osborne

#easier #i #make #people #say

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. ↗

— George Osborne

#bank #central #central bank #debt #dissipated

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#apology #armed #armed forces #been #course