Active Quotes · Page 12

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

— Ronald Ross

I like active and interesting holidays - I'm not a sun worshipper at all.

— David Essex

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

— Barack Obama

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

— Brian Eno

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

— Bonnie Raitt

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

— Isaac Stern

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

— Rumi

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

— Mort Sahl

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

— Gary Yourofsky

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

— Novalis

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have…

— William Jennings Bryan

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have…

— Shay Carl

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I've always just been really really active and I never wanted my legs to hold me back.

— Jessica Long

Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of…

— Thomas Jones

I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average…

— Patrick Geddes

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they…

— Terry Bradshaw

I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued…

— Greg Graffin

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's…

— Michelle Obama

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the…

— Watchman Nee

Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading…

— Russell Brand

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements…The conclusion is…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest…

— Edward Abbey

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick…

— Thomas Szasz

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the…

— Watchman Nee

For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the…

— Michio Kaku

I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.

— Jason Sellards

I'm very inquisitive by nature, very active, almost hyper-active.

— Aaron Gordon

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

— Harold Laski

A lot of fighters get frustrated when they're not active.

— Gervonta Davis

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

— Algee Smith

The lesser jihad is our active fulfillment of Islam's commands and duties.

— Fethullah Gulen

I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods.

— Sebastian Roche

I've always been active, and enjoy running and lifting weights.

— Shannon Bream