Best 67 quotes in «passive quotes» category

The answers hardly seemed of consequence. Not much did. I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.

The sea, the sea… Man alone, Passive, unaware In his elemental sadness.

The desire to catch, as Bonnard hoped, the PASSING MOMENT is antithetical to being in the moment. The photographer is an observer to others’ moments. The Picture People have dedicated themselves to this paradox, and consign themselves on either side of the equation.

Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient, passive and subservient.

We cannot achieve or goal when we are afraid, not confident, passive and indecisive

When there is no specific task, the human’s subconscious mind will be in a passive state

Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!

Your money should become active, not passive.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

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

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

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

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

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

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

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

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

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

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.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

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

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

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.

Privacy is not for the passive.

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

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

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

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?

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

Be an active reader; not a passive reader.

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

A wizard salesman, Kromer switched on and demonstrated the range of speeds on any number of devices with a shame-dissolving forthrightness. At those moments, he thought of himself as a Conceptual Lesbian, a term he’d invented and never spoken aloud, nor advanced into any coherent definition. Kromer was fairly certain he’d never experienced an erection within the bounds of the shop.

Being gentle doesn’t stop us fighting for our dreams.

Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go.

God created everyone uniquely and for a purpose, and not to be on this earth as a passive spectator

Guilt loves the passive.

Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

I constantly watch people like Marion Cotillard or Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet... I have a fear of being passive, and what I admire about all those actresses is that every choice they make is really strong. Even if they're playing something very quiet, it's visceral and bold.

Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...] Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.

If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue makes you a tacit supporter of it.

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.