Activity Quotes

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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates… — Walter Benjamin
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to… — James Hillman
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility… — Ambrose Bierce
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry… — John Adams
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first… — Erich Maria Remarque
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing cardâ€¦and somehow the… — Joyce Carol Oates
All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a… — Libba Bray
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. — Salvador Dali
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,… — Milan Kundera
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his professionâ€¦He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in… — John Dewey
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and… — William Lyon Phelps
Writing is a mysterious activity. — Susan Sontag
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that… — Susan Sontag
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. — Michael Crichton
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good… — Louise Penny

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