Passively Quotes

78 quotes by 71 authors

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations,… — Corazon Aquino
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it). — George E. P. Box
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12… — Gary Kleck
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life. — Wendell Berry
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Princess Marie Bonaparte
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate.… — Charles Hodge
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream… — Charles R. Swindoll
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.… — George Carlin
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that… — Langston Hughes
A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only… — Gerald Asher
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace… — John Zerzan
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must. — Immanuel Wallerstein
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. — Bebe Moore Campbell
Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain. — Corneliu E. Giurgea
Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in… — Richard Wiseman
A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand… — William Henry Chamberlin
Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of… — Roberto Assagioli
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit… — Neal A. Maxwell
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice. — Peter Kreeft

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