Active Quotes

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Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active… — Alexander Alekhine
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and… — William Godwin
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still… — Susan Hampshire
You are not an active creator of the film. — Sydney Pollack
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to… — Joseph Lancaster
Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy. — John Spratt
I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the… — Betty Hill
We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock. — Steve Brown
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal… — Harold Washington
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of… — Albert Bushnell Hart
I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would… — Helen Gahagan
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was… — Sydney Brenner
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. — Jerzy Kosinski
Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. — Flavius Josephus
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is… — James Forrestal
When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000… — Joseph Rotblat
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is… — Krist Novoselic
One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over… — Haldan Keffer Hartline

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