Active Quote by Edith Hamilton

Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead…

— James E. Talmage

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can…

— Derek Bailey

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

— Cyndi Lee

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive…

— John Oliver

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children,…

— Joseph Joubert

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

— Harold E. Varmus

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

— Sylvia Plath

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

— Sylvia Plath

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen…

— Richard M. Nixon

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is…

— Hamilton Jordan

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald