Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you. — William DeWitt Hyde
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.… — Benjamin Tucker
I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. — Noam Chomsky
The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it… — Richard Schickel
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see… — Alexander Hamilton
The Bowâ€™s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the… — Jeanne Gang
I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it. — Anton Yelchin
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let… — Eugene Mirman
And Iâ€™ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but… — Barack Obama
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right… — Russell Brand
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy. — Sara Bareilles
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the… — Ram Dass
I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in,… — Tom Berenger
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not… — Linda Darling-Hammond
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave… — Susan Vreeland
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and… — David Emerald Womeldorff
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri

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