Active Quotes

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

You are not an active creator of the film.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

I will remain active in judo.

Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision.

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. I'm glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, 'That girl was bats– crazy. I'm glad I didn't go there.'

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

I love to work out and do cardio and have a healthy, active lifestyle, but I also am not going to, like, freak out over food.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to the president.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.