Inaction Quotes - Page 10

• I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Desert, Developing Countries

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.

  Philip French

  Independent, Genre Is, Cinema

  "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as was the case in South Africa, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Haiti. Why for us no? Why legalize death in one place and somewhere else no? This is clear in our memories.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Memories, Iraq, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.indians.org

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• I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction.

  Chuck Hagel

  Responsibility, Thinking, President

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, Practice, He Man

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.201, Penguin

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• Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Fire, House, Action

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

  Vera Nazarian

  Eye, Evil, Apathy

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west, 70 million dollars a day are being spent in fighting fires that have clearly been exacerbated by drought and climate change. So, people have pointed out the true dollars and cents cost of inaction on climate change.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Real, Fighting, Fire

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Book, School

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Imperfection, Perception

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• If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hurt, Action, Ifs

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Issues, Decision, Leaving

  "Opening Address At "Ceasefire! Bridging The Political Divide" Conference". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Being Strong, Ambition, World

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• It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Heart, Decision

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• Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Risk, Climate, May

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

  Thomas Watson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Educational

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• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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• All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Inherit The Wind, Standing Still, Stills

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• Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

  Winston Churchill

  Lasts, Someday, Appeasement

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• Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• To take arms against a sea of troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Spirit, Life Is

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