Buddha Quotes

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I'm like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

American government has seemed to mean naught but impotence and unavailing words.

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

All tongue, without either head or heart.’

We lose credibility when we make idle threats.

In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.

The CIA has become a hollow shell of words without deeds

One of the most disconcerting phenomena of these times is the disparity between the enormous amount of idealist propaganda that goes on from pulpit, platform and press, and the inconsiderable effect that it seems to produce in the actual conduct of men and of nations.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.

You may hear the most beautiful things, you may hear promises, you may hear everything you want to hear but if the person you're dating is not following up with their actions then they're just words.

Even parrots talk. I don't care about what they say.

Great talkers, little doers.

In the end words are just wind.