Inactive Quotes
30 quotes by 27 authors
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All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we…
— Sun Tzu
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The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which…
— Roger McDonald
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.
— Wayne Dyer
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or…
— Samuel Johnson
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to…
— H.G. Wells
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If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
— Francis Crick
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Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th…
— Benjamin Carson
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Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening…
— Sheri L. Dew
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The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
— Thom S. Rainer
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Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims…
— Wole Soyinka
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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no…
— Walter Savage Landor
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A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
— Anthony Burgess
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When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley…
— Claude Bernard
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I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I…
— Bob Feller
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There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
— John Steinbeck
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