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«I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.»
Author: Claire Danes | About: Imagination, Solitude | Keywords: active, be active, devices, huge, Left Turn, My own, scared, scares, scaring
«Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.»
Author: Edith Hamilton (Author, Educator) | About: Belief, Faith | Keywords: active, be active, passive
«In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.»
Author: Billie Jean King (Tennis Player) | Keywords: acceptable, be active, females, scarier, seventies, sports
«I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer) | About: Perfection | Keywords: active, ago, appreciable, be active, effect, exertion, humanity, perfectability
«An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.»
Author: General George S. Patton (General) | About: Body, Mind | Keywords: active, be active, inactive
«Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Literature, Writers | Keywords: be active, stillness
«Active Evil is better than Passive Good.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: active, be active, passive
«A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Work | Keywords: assured, be active, left over, necessaries, obliged, obtaining
«Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Genius | Keywords: active, be active, genius, loftier, lofty
«I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: active, alive, be active, deeply, define, felt, intensely, mental, moments, moral, moral character, particular, Real Character, Real Me, seek out, speaks, voice
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