We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“If extra-linguistic reality (R1) secures a determinate meaning (R3) which can then be perfectly translated, then language is R5 Passive; it does… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
“The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like… — Dylan Gelulla Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking,… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors.… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
I've never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
There are moments I get pretty passive and just have to be aggressive. — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The cool thing about our fans is that they're not just passive concert goers. — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am… — Loulou de la Falaise Copy Share Image
![“[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.” quote by Will Cuppy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b43/will-cuppy-7569_active_footnote-the-female-of-any-species-is-ge_381362.jpg)
![“Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games].” quote by Shigeru Miyamoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/81f/shigeru-miyamoto-5303_attitude_their-attitude-is-okay-i-am-the-customer_486841.jpg)
