Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. — Grigory Sanakoev
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as… — Martin Freeman
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an… — Michio Kaku
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. — Karl Liebknecht
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to… — Trevanian
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that. — Nuala O'Faolain
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But… — Ben Goldacre
I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get… — Kiele Sanchez
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important… — Constance Hale
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. — Caroline Myss
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I didnâ€™t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing.… — Kara Walker
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to… — Joe Tye
Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear… — Robert Bresson
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best — Ela Bhatt
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. — Robert Baden-Powell
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation. — Ravi Ravindra
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties.… — Etty Hillesum

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