Active Quotes

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.

I've always had an active imagination.

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

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

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 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?

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

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'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.