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Inaction counted as a choice.
It was lights, camera, inaction.
Sometimes inaction is worse than action.
True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction
To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.
Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?
There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?
My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
To me, there is no doubt: inaction abroad emboldens actions on the home front. They are related.
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.
In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.
Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.
Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can't let him destroy my country.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.