Top 758 Passive Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. — © Hermann Ebbinghaus
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.
As a culture, we really like our food passive.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. — © Christopher Isherwood
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.
You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
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.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Passive-aggressive is the worst thing in the world to me!
People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.
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.
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
There are moments I get pretty passive and just have to be aggressive.
The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.
Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. — © Ellen Hopkins
Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun.
When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not as successful.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.
The cool thing about our fans is that they're not just passive concert goers.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.
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