Quotes About Active And Passive Voice

#1. The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.

James Lee Burke

#2. When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#3. You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

Bryan Batt

#4. Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

Emily Levine

#5. We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. It is a long time since I saw you lose a life, Bluestar." Firepaw overheard Tigerclaw's whispered words. "How many have you lost now?" Firepaw couldn't help feeling surprised at Tigerclaw's open curiosity.

Erin Hunter

#7. It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

John Green

#8. Almost there..." I said, like I was taking my child to Disneyland.

Holly Bourne

#9. Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

Barry Sears

#10. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.

Adam Fletcher

#11. The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

Rupert Sheldrake

#12. If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

William DeWitt Hyde