The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods. — Sebastian Roche Copy Share Image
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning… — Marc Kielburger Copy Share Image
Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand. — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays. I don't want to seem intolerant… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
