Actively Quotes

333 Actively quotes by 299 unique authors

Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of… — John Townsend
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still… — Jared Diamond
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. — Shashi Tharoor
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only… — Wilfred Trotter
Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things… — Henri Nouwen
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic, — Benjamin Graham
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists — Pat Roberts
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like… — Paolo Bacigalupi
Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in! — Sheila Kitzinger
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is… — Jonathan Clements
Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when… — Lisa Randall
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies-… — James Howard Kunstler
At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of… — Armstrong Williams
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. — Ben Hecht
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of… — Linus Torvalds
When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a… — Josei Toda
To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept… — Nicola Barker
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. — Leon Festinger
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice. — Peter Kreeft
Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one… — Roger Delano Hinkins
We're living in a world now where consumers are bombarded with thousands of commercial messages - they're everywhere you look. Unless you can cut through… — Rochelle B Lazarus
It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature… — Unknown Author
It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting… — Mark Dvoretsky
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down. — Russell Banks

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