Active Quotes · Page 29

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

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

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

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people…

— Adam Driver

A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush…

— William Cowper

Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by…

— Ulrich Beck

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life…

— Hill Harper

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your…

— Gunter Grass

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in…

— Charles Dickens

The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that…

— Liev Schreiber

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant.…

— Karl Marx

Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also…

— Gary Taubes

I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's…

— Tom Hiddleston

Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would…

— Ambrose Bierce

We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented…

— Bonar Law

Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe…

— George W. Bush

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black…

— Trevor Rabin

It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,…

— Raymond Geuss

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

— Marquis de Sade

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to…

— Claudio Hummes

We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

It is difficult for our youth to want to be active when PE is taken out of our schools.

— Katrina Adams

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

— Joshua Michael Stern

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

— Jane Austen

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

— Victoria Justice

The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.

— Patricia Arquette

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

— Studs Terkel

I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

— Richard Owen Cambridge

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit…

— Thales

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

— Susie Bright

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

— Henry Ward Beecher