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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.


Eric Hoffer

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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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KELLY JONES Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.
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C. JOYBELL C. Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
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EMAD AFROUQ When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can ke...
DAISAKU IKEDA I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep sw...
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GABE MCDONALD He has a good, tight crew, and they manage to keep the ship afloat.
CHARLES STEVENSON There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm getting pitches to hit and swinging. Once you get your pitch, keep swinging,
DAVID ORTIZ I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. ...hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.
DEAN KOONTZ Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance....
SONYA WALGER I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain...
ALISON SWEENEY In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I...
TIGER WOODS We've been fighting to keep afloat, and we -- we're just going down.
JANET GAMET Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abet...
REBECCA MACKINNON The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to ri...
SARAH BERNHARDT There is a disclaimer at the bottom of the flier saying it's from a Parents Taking Action committee.
ELAINE TAYLOR No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB Kin...
CARLOS SANTANA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.
CHARLES BOWER Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace...
ANNE LAMOTT She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
PETER CAPALDI Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep
CHARLAINE HARRIS Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my li...
TRENT REZNOR oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
ELIZABETH WARREN When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
GARY ALLAN What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT Any money that comes to this city ... is needed to keep us afloat.
COUNCILMAN HENRY FICKLIN Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know ...
SALLY SCHNEIDER No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
KEVIN SPACEY From where I was sitting, I did not see the district attorney flailing his arms. He did some pulling...
TERRY SULLIVAN It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new one...
OREN PELI Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people thin...
NICK CAVE It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look goo...
ALAN ARKIN Our kids have been swinging the bats all year long. Five of them are hitting at least .500 and befor...
PAUL CROFT The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER He was pretty calm. When I was giving him the Heimlich, he wasn't flailing around or waving his arms...
KRISTEN BOSS I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my...
DAVE CHECKETTS The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes...
ROBERT BROWNING We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig...
SARAH BERNHARDT The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough...
NEIL STRAUSS The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one...
SHATRUJEET NATH I hope we can keep it going. It's a worthwhile endeavor. We'd like to keep it afloat.
LOIS SPENCE You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don'...
DAVID BYRNE It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
ADOLF GALLAND I think it probably seemed like I was anxious because I was swinging at bad pitches. I was thinking ...
VLADIMIR GUERRERO He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ...
JOSS WHEDON The bottom line is they want Eric to take a drastic cut and we don't feel his skills have diminished...
GREG JOHNSON So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there...
SHERYL SANDBERG It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ...
RACHEL WEISZ I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work...
CAROLE KING My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's...
JAMES GUNN Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That...
SETH SHOSTAK It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. Tha...
JAKE ARRIETA The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s...
WENDY DAVIS To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton'...
BRUNO MARS My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble of...
HANK AARON Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because ...
ANI DIFRANCO All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a de...
ADAM CAROLLA I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We've been getting Whatley some pinch hits, and he caught one of the games at Seminole. He's been sw...
JAMES MANSINGER There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she...
SOPHIA AMORUSO I was telling him to keep kicking his feet to stay afloat.
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SONIA SOTOMAYOR When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...
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ERIC WALKER Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficu...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in governmen...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
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ERIC HOFFER Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that ...
ERIC HOFFER You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, ...
ERIC HOFFER Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And w...
ERIC HOFFER Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has hap...
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we r...
ERIC HOFFER One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
ERIC HOFFER Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER