Pastoral Resources

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.