Activity Quotes
1646 quotes by 1225 authors
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Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again.…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to…
— C.S. Lewis
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I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.
— Ted Chiang
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and…
— John Gardner
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Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn…
— Andrew Weil
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She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
— Steven Pressfield
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The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
— Ben Aaronovitch
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Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved.…
— Barry Lyga
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From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life…
— Henry Miller
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The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all…
— Herman Melville
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need…
— Michael Sandel
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
— Aristotle
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The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he…
— Patti Smith
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Reyes, what happened?†He‘d been busy nibbling his way to my collarbone, his hot mouth evoking seismic activity at each point of contact. I really…
— Darynda Jones
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Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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