Passiveness Quotes

#1. And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

Ray McGovern

#2. Rousseau. - Although this politician, the paramount authority of the Democrats, makes the social edifice rest upon the general will, no one has so completely admitted the hypothesis of the entire passiveness of human nature in the presence of the lawgiver: - "If

Frederic Bastiat

#3. Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness

William Wordsworth

#4. At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

Vance Packard

#5. Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

Jimmy Rollins

#6. I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

Mike Bickle

#7. It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Eric Metaxas

#8. Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Alexander Hamilton

#9. Our future depends on how we understand the past.

Gustavo Cerati

#10. I'm scared, I burn, o Dragon please tell me, How do you love a fire? Every scale upon his body trumpeted its delighted recognition. He bugled back: You become the fire. Even

Marc Secchia

#11. The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,

Eero Saarinen

#12. I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents - leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind - and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine.

Gillian Flynn

#13. I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

Katherine Waterston

#14. I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Dick Cavett

#15. The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

John Piper

#16. Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. I love you." He frowns.
"Say it again."
"Tobias," I say. "I love you.

Veronica Roth

#18. Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'

John Madden