Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive. — James Kelman Copy Share Image
There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive. — Jimmer Fredette Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man. — William Ames Copy Share Image
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient. — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is… — Jeanne Gang Copy Share Image
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“It is never ideal to be passive by accepting whatever is personally unacceptable.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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