Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well… — Rudolf Flesch
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration… — Aurora Levins Morales
Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This… — Janet Mock
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living. — Janet Guthrie
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process.… — Pauline Oliveros
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are… — Philip Zimbardo
Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.… — David Abram
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship… — Jeremiah Burroughs
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the… — Albert Mackey
Iâ€™m skeptical of passive learning. If you donâ€™t write down what youâ€™re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be… — John Taylor Gatto
My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated… — Candace Cameron
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to… — James E. Talmage
We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was… — Rick Cusick
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women… — Fatema Mernissi
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold

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