Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

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.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

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.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.