Active Quotes · Page 83

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the…

— Robert Updegraff

But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the…

— Kim Jee-woon

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at…

— Thomas Merton

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country…

— Alan Bersin

I'm particularly keen on promoting this [Nikolai] Medtner piece, Night Wind, because I feel it is a fantastic work that hasn't been…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

— Emily Yoffe

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was…

— Jose Saramago

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

— Benjamin Butler

The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active…

— Max Tundra

Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin…

— Russ Feingold

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from…

— Lewis Buzbee

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

— Ambrose Bierce

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of…

— Mark Lloyd

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.

— Steve Kerr

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

— Philip Yancey

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

— Catherine of Genoa

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

— Anne Bronte

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for…

— Josef Pieper

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at…

— Betty Friedan

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