Activity Quotes
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.
AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.
I saw Paranormal Activity on Halloween with all my friends. It scared me, but it was so much fun.
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.
People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.
You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.
Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.