Active Quotes - Page 35

• You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Waiting, Activist

  Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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• O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Men, Knowing

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• The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Home, Needs

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• Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

  Sally Jenkins

  Sports, Running, College

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• Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Hurt, Prayer, People

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• I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Europe, United States

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.375

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• There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation and the commandments of the church require that the Constitution and the laws of the land be upheld. It is also part of our belief that the time will come when the country will be distracted and general lawlessness prevail. Then the Mormon people will step forward and take an active part in rescuing the nation from ruin.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Country, Patriotic, Law

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• Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Lying, Waiting, Heaven

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• Staying physically active - walking or running every day - and eating healthily is the best way to stay fit.

  Lauren Conrad

  Running, Way, Fit

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• I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Running, Yoga, Hiking

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• The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

  Ted Leonsis

  Community, Participants

  Ted Leonsis (2010). “The Business Of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Work and Life”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

  Jase Robertson

  Believe, Trying, Lines

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• My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Hurt, Heart, Play

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• 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

  Thinking, Natural, Should

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• People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.

  Stefan Heym

  Country, People, Feelings

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• I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.

  Lynn Nottage

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a

  Dave Barry

  Giving, News, Evening

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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• With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Fun, Writing, Up Early

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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• But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Block, Cutting, Inspire

  Source: collider.com

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• There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win.

  Greta Gerwig

  Sports, Fighting, Winning

  Source: collider.com

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• The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Dream, Memories, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

  Joan Claybrook

  Democracy, Ordinary, Citizens

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• The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

  Rumi

  Hopeful, Interpretation, True Ones

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• Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

  Isaac Stern

  Culture, Music Is, Parts Of Life

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