Get Active Sayings

#1. It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

Crystal Eastman

#2. If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.

Jessie Pavelka

#3. I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active - jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#4. listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.

Ryan Holiday

#5. Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

Thom Hartmann

#6. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#7. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Howard Zinn

#8. This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

Otto Schily

#9. A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

Valentina Tereshkova

#10. Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. You're not a tree. So move; make something happen.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Henry Rollins

#13. I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

Guy Kawasaki

#14. The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.

Pope John Paul II

#15. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

#16. I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

Tony Kushner

#17. Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

John Searle

#18. The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

Max Tundra

#19. I liked being active. I liked being creative.

Sarah Hughes

#20. Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

Louise Slaughter

#21. I'm here to inform you that you have been recalled to active duty, Staff Sergeant, by special authority of the SOCOM initiative you agreed to when you were formerly released." Ty

Abigail Roux

#22. I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.

Donal Logue

#23. Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Charles Baudelaire

#24. Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#25. L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

Janet Fitch

#26. I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity.

Suzi Quatro

#27. A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Aristotle.

#28. The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Elizabeth Drew

#29. he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits; and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life, by sending them supperless to bed. On

Charles Dickens

#30. I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.

Jennette McCurdy

#31. I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

Karl Rove

#32. Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#33. I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

Anna Quindlen

#34. I will remain active in judo.

Ryoko Tani

#35. For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#36. We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock.

Steve Brown

#37. The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives ...

Kimberly Hahn

#38. And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

Elizabeth Olsen

#39. A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

Randy Couture

#40. The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

Emile Durkheim

#41. Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

Conrad Black

#42. Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps.

Dian Fossey

#43. All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

Henry Moore

#44. It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.

Ned Vizzini

#45. I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

Thomas Sadoski

#46. Adiation ... the biggest lobby ... in the world. It's involved in university research ... industries ... the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.

Rosalie Bertell

#47. As you read God's Word, always remember that it is something active, that it is doing something to you, for better or worse. When we hear or read the Word, we are not above it, using it for our own purposes. Rather, in the Word, God is doing something to us.

Anonymous

#48. We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

#49. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Milton

#50. True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#51. We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#52. Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Claude Bernard

#53. It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Charles Edison

#54. We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.

Henry David Thoreau

#55. When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

Noreena Hertz

#56. The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

Helene Deutsch

#57. It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country

Sunday Adelaja

#58. Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.

Carrie Tollefson

#59. Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action

Pope John Paul II

#60. Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

Aldous Huxley

#61. An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Robert Kiyosaki

#62. I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

Ben Sollee

#63. Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work.

Sara Sheridan

#64. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

Mahatma Gandhi

#65. Couldn't one go right away, to the far ends of the earth, and be free from it all?
One could not. The far ends of the earth are not five minutes from Charing Cross. nowadays. While the wireless is active, there are no far ends of the earth.

D.H. Lawrence

#66. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

Roger Altman

#67. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#68. Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

B.K.S. Iyengar

#69. I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

Gal Gadot

#70. But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for being active, but rather a reason for being lazy.

G.K. Chesterton

#71. I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#72. Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

Tom Irwin

#73. Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

Victoria Pratt

#74. One's relation to one's house, in other words, is hardly a relation between a pure subject and a pure object - between an active intelligence, or mind, and a purely passive chunk of matter.

David Abram

#75. I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.

Viggo Mortensen

#76. The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

Shaun White

#77. Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

Tom Bosley

#78. I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

Lauryn Hill

#79. Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Bradley Whitford

#80. In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive - especially, Marlon Brando ... the cat not the man.

Tippi Hedren

#81. A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

George Whitefield

#82. It is by far the best plan, therefore, to mingle leisure with business, whenever chance impediments or the state of public affairs forbid one's leading an active life: for one is never so cut off from all pursuits as to find no room left for honorable action.

Seneca.

#83. While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.

Geneva Gay

#84. Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.

Narendra Modi

#85. Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation

Sunday Adelaja

#86. We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

Theodore Roosevelt

#87. Coleridge saw the active mind as one way in which human beings were made in God's image:

Mark J.P. Wolf

#88. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.

Rudy Simone

#89. Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Philip K. Dick

#90. Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'

Rush Limbaugh

#91. I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Karen Duffy

#92. We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program.

Ayub Khan

#93. It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness);

Aristotle.

#94. I don't date as an active activity anymore because the work of loving myself is enough.

Gita Jackson

#95. I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

Garry Shandling

#96. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.

Aesop

#97. Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.

Akira Suzuki

#98. How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?
It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#99. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#100. You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.

Vincent De Paul