Active Quotes

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He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it… — Shawn Marion
I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not… — Denis Halliday
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really… — Jon Secada
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a… — Alvin Lustig
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. — Octavia Spencer
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… — Thomas Carlyle
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness. — Naum Gabo
The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money… — Dick Butkus
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But… — J. G. Ballard
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their… — Nathanael Emmons
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,… — William James
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt… — John Stuart Mill
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis de Sade
I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand. — Thaksin Shinawatra
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. — Bridget Riley
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'… — Simone de Beauvoir
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. — Studs Terkel

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