But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to… — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We should pray to be reconciled with God in everything so we can get grace to react in a godly way. Then… — Esther Smith Copy Share Image
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Russia is an aggressive revisionist power. And they are working - there's evidence they're working to interfere not just in our electoral… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't… — Jerry Ferrara Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I don't believe in misconceptions in art and films. There are always so many different ways to relate to or understand a… — Claudia Llosa Copy Share Image
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them,… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women… — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
