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But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies - those days are over. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Love without sacrifice is like theft — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They resented the patronage they depended upon. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Stars shine. This is self evident. What is not so evident however is the fact that it is not a passive activity but instead an active one. — Charles Michael Landry

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive
it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual. — W. H. Auden

A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life, for He owns it. — Ann Voskamp

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne. — Orson Scott Card

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it. — Anton Yelchin

The choices humans make should be active rather than passive. — Viktor E. Frankl

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There's no such thing as a passive audience. — Chip Heath

Rydra, when I look at the night and stars, it is only a passive act, but you are active even watching, and halo the stars with more luminous flame. — Samuel R. Delany

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. — Lionel Shriver

Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life. — Omar EL KADMIRI

Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. — Robert Baden-Powell

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

I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.' — Viggo Mortensen

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

Happiness comes not by passive waiting, but by active participation. — Suzanne Eller

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

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann

People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive. — Halsey

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive. — Marc Morial

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul. — Gary Zukav

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction). — Deepak Chopra

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. — Joan Didion

To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me. — H.A. Kotys

You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels. — Ken Follett

These passive prejudices were not necessarily from a place of ugly, but they certainly weren't from a place of respect. — Trae Crowder

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution. — Richard Levins

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it. — Jim Caviezel

I don't understand why people enjoy different things than I do, so I'm going to make a passive aggressive comment about it. — Anonymous

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded. — Julian Assange

I've become passive. I don't invent, I don't yearn. I manage, I cope. — Susan Sontag

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive. — Rick Owens

This is passive-aggression in action. — Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself. — Annie Lennox

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith

Trying to make her angry is like trying to find a corner on a bowling ball. — Craig McLay

Her stillness defeated his storm. — Chris Gardner

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

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man. — William Ames

Curses aren't passive things. They'll fight back. — David Levithan

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it. — Peter Andre

Thirty minutes of active learning is equivalent to several hours of passive learning. — Tamara L. Chilver

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ... — Harriet Martineau

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone De Beauvoir

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive. — Rich Lowry

I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient. — Dave DeBronkart

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science. — Rupert Sheldrake

Conservatism and passive acceptance...They can't think for themselves.Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling.Makes me want to puke. — Koushun Takami

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude. — Joyce Meyer

My love of books and ability to get buried in them while real life piles up outside the door always keeps me passive and deluded. — Kay Dew Shostak

The Word of God is not Passive but Active. — Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy. — Ariel Pink

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline — Gina Barreca

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. — Jason Silva

Reyna's destiny: to die defending a passive-aggressive goddess. — Rick Riordan

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. — Jim Rohn

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness. — Maureen Murdock

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years. — S.T. Joshi

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure. — Dennis Rainey

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. — Robin Morgan

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices. — Flannery O'Connor

I believe sarcasm is the passive form of rudeness and should not be tolerated in the Body of Christ. — Sean Feucht

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. — Orrin Woodward

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

When there is no specific task, the human's subconscious mind will be in a passive state — Sunday Adelaja

I'm skeptical of passive learning. If you don't write down what you're hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha

Sometimes evil win; not because good people are passive, but because evil play dirty while good play by the rules. — Jeanette Coron

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many, — Benjamin Graham

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. — Meshell Ndegeocello

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive. — James Kelman

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. — Nawal El Saadawi

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. — Criss Jami

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. — Clay Shirky

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation. — Raymond Arroyo

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. — Edith Hamilton

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. — Jean Houston

To be silent is to be passive. — Octavia Spencer

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either. — Francis Spufford

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. — Courteney Cox

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. — Joe Tye

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

I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones. — The Paper Doll

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive — Sunday Adelaja

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive. — Jimmy Rollins

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. — Camille Paglia

The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids. — Jennifer Egan

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity. — John Ralston Saul

Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions — Sunday Adelaja

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. — T. Harv Eker

mine is an ongoing subsection more passive than any passivity. — Erin Moure

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me. — Richard Corliss

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy. — Sara Bareilles