Active Quotes

I haven't been very active in politics.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

I will remain active in judo.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.