The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
“The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19,… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that,… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death.… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“I used to love the saying, 'If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.' It… — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive.… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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