Actions

Famous quotes containing the word actions:

    “Now they express
    All that’s content to wear a worn-out coat,
    All actions done in patient hopelessness,
    All that ignores the silences of death,
    Thinking no further than the hand can hold,
    All that grows old,
    Yet works on uselessly with shortened breath.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The course of my long life hath reached at last
    In fragile bark o’er a tempestuous sea
    The common harbor, where must rendered be
    Account for all the actions of the past.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–80)