Quotes of: Passively Keyword

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

Dominique de Villepin

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Elizabeth George

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

George C. Marshall

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Daniel Gillies

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Sonia Sotomayor

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Harold E. Varmus

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

Yotam Ottolenghi

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

Dark Spring

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Voice of Reason

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Tacitus

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

Sara Bareilles

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

Noam Chomsky

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Corazon Aquino

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

Criss Jami

A postsexist environment is not something that animal liberationists need passively await, in the meantime deferring to present sexism in the manner of our presentation.

Brian Luke

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

Dave deBronkart

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering ou...

Creativity

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Death Under the Venice Moon

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

Eurydice in the Underworld