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Quotes About Active

So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
~ Rene Cassin
I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.
~ Jessica Capshaw
I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.
~ Dustin Clare
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
~ Aristotle
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
~ Kiana Tom
How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I always find something to keep me busy.
~ Amy Sedaris
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
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Microsoft seems obsessed with the word active. there's Active Desktop, ActiveX, and Active Directory. however, the term is accurate-indeed, Active Directory is Active (when used correctly)
~ Ed Tittel
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
While I'm an athlete and while I'm fighting actively, I don't intend to pursue a career in politics. What happens after that, we'll see. But I don't have an intention to do both at the same time.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.
~ Taeyang
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
~ Patti Smith
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
~ Niall Ferguson
Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment.
~ Malcolm Fraser
Your man Flavor Flav is living!
~ Flavor Flav
I am extremely active in the foster care crisis in this country. Everything that I do is pretty much with the end goal of trying to make a difference in the lives of the children in foster care.
~ Jen Lilley
As a founder, you are a very active component of your company.
~ Justin Kan
I am a fitness freak.
~ Rahul Dev
I've grown up with an active outdoor lifestyle. Before I lived in Australia, I ran a construction company in Oregon, U.S.A. I also owned horses and would spend several weeks a year exploring Oregon's beautiful wilderness areas on horseback.
~ Terri Irwin
Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.
~ Dick Powell
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
~ Rachel Kushner