Activity Quotes · Page 29

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

— William Godwin

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

— Robert H. Schuller

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

— Christian Boltanski

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

— Jack Vance

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own…

— Ramana Maharshi

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature…

— Pope Francis

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of…

— Aristotle

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he…

— Charles William Eliot

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and…

— Hannah Arendt

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of…

— Rene Magritte

Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless…

— Hannah Arendt

There are things that you study, classes you've taken, activities you've done that feel right, that feel like they're in your power…

— Robert Greene

I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also…

— Sarah

If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like…

— L. Ron Hubbard

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of…

— Eric Hoffer

Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of…

— Jurgen Habermas

What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named…

— Manning Marable

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge,…

— Rudolf Rocker

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral…

— Charles R. Swindoll

If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there…

— Alfred Kinsey

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend…

— Erich Fromm

Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son…

— Lydia Hoyt Farmer

They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.

— David Saperstein

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities,

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term…

— Freeman Dyson

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit…

— Jacques Barzun

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and…

— Baba Amte

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to…

— Edward Snowden

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus…

— Ravi Zacharias

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

— Maria Mitchell

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion…

— Dave Ramsey

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at…

— Norman Mailer

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

— Frederick Lenz

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

— Jonas Gahr Store

In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually…

— Frederick Lenz

Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far…

— Dave Barry

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for…

— Fred Wilson