Active Quotes

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."

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

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Experimentation is an active science.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

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.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

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

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.