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Quotes About Active

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.
~ William Styron
The more goods we acquire in the temporal realm, the more intense our external work, the less accessible and farther removed is eternity. Hence the limited perspective of active and energetic people, the banality of their thought and actions.
~ Cioran
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
Students don't learn by being lectured at; then learn by thinking hard, solving problems and dissecting proofs.
~ Herbert A. Simon
Philemon, verse 6, "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
~ Unknown
the kind of man an Anasazi was expected to be. Honorable, modest, self-disciplined, active in the religious life of the clan, one who put the welfare of the clan above his own, skilled in farming and in hunting, trustworthy, dignified.
~ Unknown
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.
~ Adrienne Mayor
If you are the kind who has an active lifestyle and are not hellbent on looking all buffed up, I'd think a vegetarian diet is the way to go.
~ Sidharth Malhotra
My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry's in the freezer.
~ Chrissy Teigen
Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.
~ Michael Gurian
But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.
~ Jeff Lindsay
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
~ Jerry Spinelli
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
I'm lucky I get to work a lot.
~ Stephen Root
I don't really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I'm not stuck all the time hanging out.
~ Ryan Sheckler
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
~ Amartya Sen
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
I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.
~ Eva Longoria
I'm Hank, I do a bunch of stuff.
~ Hank Green