Top 758 Passive Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.

Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

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.

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.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

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.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

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 when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not nice and easy. I'm not meek and passive.

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.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

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?

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Efforts to steal an election in 2000 or overturn one from 2016 should be met not with passive compliance but a righteous defense of the ballot box.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

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 up against.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

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

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

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.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

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.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.