The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. — Thomston Copy Share Image
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a… — John Newbery Copy Share Image
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality,… — Max Beerbohm 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
Depending upon their version of Eurocentric Racialism, then 9 times out of 10 I feel very comfortable with it. This is how… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
“If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars…Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend… — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind,… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate. — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive. — Cyndi Lee Copy Share Image
I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not… — Terry Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
“If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue… — Stewart Stafford 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
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different… — Euripides Copy Share Image