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Tag Name "Passive" (315)

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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Arthur Adamov
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Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
Kenneth Kaunda
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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Passive perception promotes pessimism Persistent perseverance promises prosperity
Yatin Patel
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
Claude Bernard
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
Ann Brashares
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
Viggo Mortensen
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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being the true God is ever with him.
Kabir
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Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
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I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
Courteney Cox
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The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
Anne Sweeney
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
W. H. Auden
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Seneca the Younger
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The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.
Cyndi Lee
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I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.
Anton Yelchin
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
Walter Savage Landor
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Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
Kathy Acker
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Privacy is not for the passive.
Jeffrey Rosen
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Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
Daisaku Ikeda
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