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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
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
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
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
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.
— Julian Assange
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
Her stillness defeated his storm.
— Chris Gardner
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
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
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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
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
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
Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.
— Maureen Murdock
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
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
— Clay Shirky
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
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
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
