Active Quotes

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I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out. — Bo Jackson
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an… — Dennis Kucinich
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I… — Karl Marx
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. — Mother Teresa
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary… — Pope Benedict XVI
Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find… — Rajneesh
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence… — Rajneesh
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in… — Marianne Williamson
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord… — Johann Arndt
Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong,… — Arnold Hiatt
By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As… — John Bagot Glubb
It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a… — Fritz Zwicky
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as… — Thomas Szasz

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