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Passive Quotes

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

Authors on Passive Quotes: Jimmy Rollins Madonna Ciccone Amma Asante Paul Mooney Jean Houston Robert Greene Christopher Isherwood Marc Morial Virginia Woolf Diane Ravitch Mayim Bialik Mahatma Gandhi Anne Sweeney Abraham Kuyper Jeffrey Rosen Rush Limbaugh Chuck Palahniuk Frances Moore LappƩ Ravi Ravindra Deepak Chopra Michael Pollan Lance Henriksen Annie Lennox Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton John Lydon Octavia Spencer Claude Bernard Marilyn French Thomston Deborah Day Maureen Murdock Nassim Nicholas Taleb Arthur Adamov
2.
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf

3.
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Arthur Adamov

4.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
Jean Houston

5.
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
Paul Mooney

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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
Diane Ravitch

9.
To be silent is to be passive.
Octavia Spencer

10.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir

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Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
Ravi Ravindra

12.
I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.
Madonna Ciccone

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I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
Annie Lennox

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I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
Courteney Cox

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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser

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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Mayim Bialik

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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
Tom Peters

18.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Nawal El Saadawi

19.
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. Iyengar

20.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John Keats

21.
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
Nuala O'Faolain

22.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Christopher Isherwood

23.
Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.
Marc Morial

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You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.
Cate Blanchett

25.
We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
Frances Moore LappƩ

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Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.
Guy P. Harrison

27.
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
Emraan Hashmi

28.
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses
Deborah Day

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You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.
Rush Limbaugh

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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
Claude Bernard

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Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.
Emily Levine

32.
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.
John Ralston Saul

33.
As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
Amma Asante

34.
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.
Jimmy Rollins

35.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Robert Greene

36.
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
Abraham Kuyper

37.
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
Anne Sweeney

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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

39.
This is passive-aggression in action.
Chuck Palahniuk

40.
Privacy is not for the passive.
Jeffrey Rosen

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Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).
Deepak Chopra

42.
Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys.
Lance Henriksen

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The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Michael Pollan

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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
John Lydon

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

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There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Marilyn French

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I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.
Maureen Murdock

49.
Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.
Ian Holm

50.
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Bill Willingham