Actions

Actions 

See Also: BEHAVIOR, CAUTION, LEAPING, JUMPING, MOVEMENT, VIOLENCE

1. Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming —B. C. Forbes
2. The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them —Heinrich Heine
3. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year —Sir John Denham
4. [Meaningless] actions that seemed like a charade played behind thick glass —Franz Werfel

   See Also: IMPORTANCE/UNIMPORTANCE

5. All action is involved in imperfection, like fire and smoke —Bhagavad-Gita
6. Driven to make a move, like a dilatory chess player prodded on by an impatient opponent —Harvey Swados
7. Evil deeds are like perfume, difficult to hide —George Herzog
8. A good deed will stick out with an inclination to spread like the tail of a peacock —Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
9. Our deeds are like children born to us; they live and act apart from our own will —George Eliot
10. Our least deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity —Henry David Thoreau
11. Reprehensible actions are like overstrong brandies; you cannot swallow them at a draught —Victor Hugo
12. The acts of my life swarm down the street like Puerto Rican kids —William Meredith
13. Trying to shake off the sun as a dog would shake off the sea —James Dickey
14. The vilest deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air —Oscar Wilde