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When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories. — Donald Miller

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron

Mannequins can't dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them. — Marty Rubin

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed. — T.F. Hodge

Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season. — Nora Roberts

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter. — Tarryn Fisher

Passivity is really a crappy substitute for manhood. But it's as common as facial hair on a hipster, or salmon-breath on a grizzly bear. — Josh Hatcher

Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change. — Martin E.P. Seligman

Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity. — Shashi Tharoor

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky

The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. — Camille Paglia

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. — Caroline Knapp

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule. — Unica Zurn

Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others. — Doris Lessing

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. — Alistair Begg

When you don't decide, life decides for you. — Marty Rubin

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. — Wendell Berry

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique De Villepin

Sometimes you have to do nothing to make something happen. — Marty Rubin

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity. — Oswald Chambers

Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones. — Maureen Corrigan

You can't be neutral on a moving train. — Howard Zinn

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation. — Jack Kornfield

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality. — Jessica Valenti

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact. — Darren Rowse

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. — Sengcan

Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil. — Walter Wink

It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting. — Paula Hawkins

Television is a passivity. — John Green

passivity means waiting for an opportunity, — Sun Tzu

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. — Bill Moyers

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity. — Charles R. Swindoll

Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack. — Bell Hooks

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the 'best' and only way to do so is
through action. — Oli Anderson

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity. — Watchman Nee

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other. — Julian Aguon

Activity = passivity. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. — Slavoj Zizek

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there. — Rivera Sun

Idealism + Inaction = Depression — Oli Anderson

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government. — Tom Robbins

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Passivity is the same as defending injustice. — Deepak Chopra

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. — Rollo May

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself. — Barbara W. Tuchman

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection. — Madeleine M. Kunin

The passivity of the green girl masquerades as politeness — Kate Zambreno

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard

Pessimism is a primary source of passivity, — Barbara W. Tuchman

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. — Jill Johnston

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

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity? — Gayle Forman

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. — Julian Barnes

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach. — Pere La Combe

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord

Will is based on activity, whim on passivity. — Erich Fromm

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him. — Thomas Merton

Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society. — Melissa Cady

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments. — Richard Hofstadter

This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment. — Peter Matthiessen

He did not confuse compassion with passivity. — Sylvia Boorstein

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. — Mao Zedong

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. — Virginia Woolf

Don't stare out the window; run through the fields. — Marty Rubin

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. — Claire Denis

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force — Angela Carter

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw. — Aspen Matis

It is passivity that dulls feeling. — Susan Sontag

If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue makes you a tacit supporter of it. — Stewart Stafford

The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life. — Marty Rubin