Passive Quotes
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.
There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.
But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.
But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.
She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers
I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.
You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.