Passive Quotes - Page 15

• We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

  Rick Cusick

  Marijuana, Passive Resistance, Numbers

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• Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

  James E. Talmage

  Life, Believe, Acceptance

  James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Numbers, Atmosphere

  "Reading Prose: An Introduction to Critical Study". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 505), 1952.

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• My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

  Candace Cameron

  Husband, Fall, Personality

  Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Davis (2015). “Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Responsibility, Play

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• 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

  Writing, Odds, Hearing

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• Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced
  with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the
  expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with
  the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which,
  having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected
  with the rest of civilized nations.

  Moses Hess

  Expression, Years, Humanity

  Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press

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• The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

  Albert Mackey

  Two, Males, Female

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• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Mental Health, Said

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

  Paul Feig

  Honesty, Dirty, Nuts

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• I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

  William Glasser

  Victim, Over It, Neurotic

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 75), 1997.

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• It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Organization, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• 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

  Decision, Understanding, Spectators

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.238, Basic Books

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• White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

  Jan Tschichold

  White, Space, Design

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• Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Commitment, Passive Resistance

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

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Passive Voice, Use, Splits

  "Sotomayoralities" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2009.

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• 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

  Acceptance, Reality, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

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• I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

  Tom Berenger

  Frustration, Remember, Incredibles

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• I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.

  Susan Vreeland

  Determination, Fate, Men

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• Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Self Worth, Feelings, May

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• Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Christian, Prayer, Lying

  Thomas Chalmers (1847). “Daily Scripture Readings: In Three Volumes”, p.34

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• But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Greed, Lazy

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.159, Counterpoint Press

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

  Kathy Acker

  Hate, Waiting, Unbearable

  Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext

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