The importance of the thumb can't be underestimated. The actions of the hand include pinch and a grasping function.

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.