Passively Quotes
78 quotes by 70 authors
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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent…
— George Eliot
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...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and…
— Edith Wharton
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In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live…
— Bill Watterson
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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
— Mark Twain
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
— David Eagleman
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When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The…
— Leo Tolstoy
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A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature…
— Tom Robbins
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Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean?…
— Elif Safak
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Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back…
— Susan Cain
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Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of…
— John Dewey
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A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the…
— Henry Cloud
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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I still like to get carried away - but passively.
— Robert Plant
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To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the…
— Andy Taylor
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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.
— Nateman
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