Actions

Famous quotes containing the word actions:

    The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
    Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

    Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
    Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
    Carrying beads?
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)