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I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun.
Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.
You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.
It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.
When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not as successful.
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.
The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not nice and easy. I'm not meek and passive.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.