Active Quotes

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

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

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.