The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have to just keep being aggressive. Once I see openings I just have to take them and not be passive. — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love;… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game.… — Pele Copy Share Image
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image