Top 1200 Human Activity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

The most restorative activity is to get out in nature where the air quality is a little nicer.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

We must overcome our cultural barriers that giving should be a private and silent activity.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

In boxing, as with other government-regulated activity, the integrity of public records should be preserved.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

In a web/mobile startup, coding is not an outsourced activity. It's an integral part of the company's DNA.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.