You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group… — Bill Cassidy Copy Share Image
Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: passive systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and active systems collect the sunlight… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a… — Rick Cusick Copy Share Image
I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive. — Cyndi Lee Copy Share Image
I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not… — Terry Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
“If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
