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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. -- Audre Lorde
The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action. -- Chris Christie
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. -- John Flanagan
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action. -- Herbert Newton Casson
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging. -- Ben Rattray
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. -- Tim Robbins
The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought. -- Denis Waitley
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. -- Zadie Smith
Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. -- Saxby Chambliss
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. -- James Earl Jones
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience. -- James Gray
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas. -- Quentin Bryce
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization. -- Vladimir Putin
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. -- Paulo Coelho
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. -- James A. Baldwin
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. -- Winston Churchill
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. -- Alfred Jodl
Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear. -- J.H. Lee
Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. -- Jack Welch
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. -- Oscar Wilde

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