Active Quotes · Page 15

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

— Jacques Ellul

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no…

— Richard Gilman

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

— Jeremy Renner

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

— Peter Forsyth

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

— Marquis de Sade

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life…

— Frederick The Great

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied…

— Jacques Barzun

I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So…

— Kathryn McCormick

I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like…

— Rumi Neely

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the…

— John Dear

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at…

— Betty Friedan

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has…

— Joyce Carol Oates

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe…

— J.R. Ward

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand…

— Madeleine Albright

...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body…

— Andrew Weil

Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an…

— Fred Rogers

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But…

— James Redford

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,…

— Lorraine Hansberry

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the…

— John Ashbery

Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping…

— John Trudell

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

— Vivek Shraya

I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these…

— Anonymous

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

— Michael Pollan

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

— William Hull

I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

— Jeppe Hein

“To respond to the call of the other is to be a full and active human being.”

— David Murphy

I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.

— Emerson Fittipaldi

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and…

— Robert D. Putnam

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

— Brendan Brazier

You see this with fighters all the time, if you're not staying active, you're kinda put on the shelf a little bit.

— Stephen Thompson

In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role.

— Wu Bangguo

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet.…

— John Mayall

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going…

— Esme Raji Codell

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

— Woody Allen