Passive Quotes
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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 into a harem slave.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!
Come from a place of love. Love isn't passive or shy. It's actually the most powerful energy in the universe.
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 passive.
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.
The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.
For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state
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.
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.
I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.
What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?
...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior.
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.
I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.
If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.
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 yourself.