Active Quotes · Page 17

I think there's going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were…

— Charles Schumer

All I want to say is that anybody, well, from the Democratic side of the fence who thinks that - who's terrified…

— Keith Ellison

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry…

— Chang-Rae Lee

There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to…

— James Norton

I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in…

— Stephen Beal

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.

— Susan J. Ellis

What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

— Camille Desmoulins

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would…

— Mark Burnett

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or…

— R. D. Laing

I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

— Richard Simmons

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I…

— John Ridley

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,…

— Edward Gibbon

I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the…

— Winona Ryder

I work out, and I try to stay active and fit so I can enjoy certain foods that I like to eat.…

— Cameron Mathison

We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back…

— Ernest Becker

There is a natural rhythm to the active and receptive energies within us. At times our energy is strong and outgoing -…

— Shakti Gawain

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent…

— Gloria Steinem

Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as…

— James E. Talmage

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when…

— Bob Harper

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

— Jim Gaffigan

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own…

— Alice Walker

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