It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity… — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I had lone, schooled myself to be oblivious to pain. I had neither doubts nor fears. All the content of my mind… — Jack London Copy Share Image
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Once we're ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It's this type of… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
“Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [...] There is plenty… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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