Active Quotes

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Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active. — B.K.S. Iyengar
I do 90 minutes of exercise a day, and obviously I have the lap band... (it's) about being fitter, happier and more active.' But he… — James Packer
I meet young people everywhere who are wonderful and faithful; youth who want to do the right thing and who indicate the reality of what… — Gordon B. Hinckley
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. — Paddy Ashdown
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and… — Mahatma Gandhi
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. — Robert Kiyosaki
... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note. — Jude Bijou
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. — Jules Feiffer
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active… — Carl Nielsen
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability… — Li Peng
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily… — Benjamin Franklin
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.… — Arthur Goldberg
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be… — Simone de Beauvoir
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have… — Robert Jarvik
Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action… — Gunter Grass
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few… — Larry McMurtry

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