The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home;… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I constantly watch people like Marion Cotillard or Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet... I have a fear of being passive, and what… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
“Likewise, the passive tasks—Facebook, email, television, etc.—are easy. And they are fine in small doses (I’ll likely check my email for thirty… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams."… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing…'Love thy work', and you will… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
“Messrs. Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and… — Candace Cameron Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty,… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always… — Shu Qi Copy Share Image
My adolescent rebellions took the form of, if anything, passive aggressively doing what was asked of me but doing it ten times… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place… — William Blake Copy Share Image
You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that… — David Cage Copy Share Image
What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity...… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
