The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
You are not an active creator of the film.
I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.
Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
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