Active Quotes

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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be… — Mary Wollstonecraft
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook… — Mark Zuckerberg
One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking… — David A. Bednar
I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle. — Evgeny Morozov
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active… — Geoff Mulgan
Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures… — Paul Stamets
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of… — Tullian Tchividjian
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and… — John Dewey
The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,… — Freeman Dyson
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is… — Thomas Merton
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That… — Maria Montessori
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. — Patrick Henry
Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If… — Grace Paley
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a… — Vladimir Nabokov
There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in… — Caroline Knapp
Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on… — James M. Barrie

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