(1765 quotes found)
“The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“activities that are important, but not urgent.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.”
Yamila Diaz
“In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.”
Marshall McLuhan
“The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.”
Louis Aragon
“He's a political exile engaged in separatist activities. China has long opposed his visit to the United States and any official meetings and contacts between him and the U.S. administration.”
Zhu Bangzao
“Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.”
Claude Bernard
“You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.”
John Travolta
“I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.”
Gregory Peck
“Most of them do not have access to outdoor activities, which you and I take for granted. In our first year, we took our 100 boys to visit the National Mall, and all of them said they had never been there before.”
John Maxwell