For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
There's no passive success on radio. Well, in radio, one of the ways in which you engage people and make them active… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human… — Marshall McLuhan 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
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain… — Leonid Feodorov Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and… — Thomas Chalmers 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
