“Passivity breeds anxiety. To be healthy, a person needs to be having an impact on his surroundings, uplifting those about him and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts … We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.” — Donald Miller 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
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
“Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
The Theory of Quantum Mechanics says that my life has to fall apart for it to come back together in a higher… — Ms Becky From Msbatmancom Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,… — George Will Copy Share Image
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity… — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [...] There is plenty… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
Once we're ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It's this type of… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a… — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image