Active Quotes · Page 19

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we…

— Jessica Tandy

I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

— Felice Picano

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

— Preston Manning

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public…

— Benjamin Butler

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be…

— Neil Young

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

— Peter Cundall

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

— Sima Samar

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time…

— Sri Aurobindo

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable…

— Seth Shostak

When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,…

— Allen W. Wood

You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think…

— Bob Newhart

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

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small…

— Rebecca West

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there…

— Melanie Lynskey

The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out…

— Yang Lan

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived…

— Georgina Chapman

As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that…

— Naveen Jain

As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents…

— Jeff Bridges

If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you…

— Henry Jenkins

A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation…

— Gerald R. Ford

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought…

— Herbert Wilf

Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active…

— Samuel R. Delany

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of…

— John Dewey

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a…

— Mohsin Hamid

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

— Jules Feiffer

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a…

— Anonymous

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

— Edgar Ramirez

I'm big on active recovery and supplementation with fish oils and anti-inflammatories and whatever it is.

— Tommaso Ciampa

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing…

— Rupert Sheldrake

I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.

— Michael Kiwanuka

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing…

— Oscar Peterson

As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids,…

— Tom Brady

I am a very active person. I have a lot of energy, and I love to be doing something physical all the…

— Tiffany Dupont

I've always really liked being active. I do Spinning classes, I run, I have a trainer, I do Pilates with my sister…

— Lauren Graham

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

— Amartya Sen

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature…

— John Searle

By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad