If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.
There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit.
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
What's your definition of dating? Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it's fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in - videos, books and art.
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.
It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
