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“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.”

Life Song Found Inspirational Life Ears Active Enjoyed Insightful Enjoyable Lament Enchanting

Book:The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey

Source: The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

Black Rocks Students Poet Friends My Friends Performances Feminist Active Professors Punk Mistaken Punk Rock Marxist Anti-american Leather Jackets Dreams From My Father

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.”

People Thinking Believe Christian Jesus I Believe Christianity Lord Growing Population Active Savior Portions

Author:Joel Osteen

“I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.”

Issues Awareness Gun Organization Treats Safety Active Public Health Health Issues Gun Safety

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”

Inspirational Time Communication Listening Active Coaching Just Listen Listen To Your Heart Good Communication

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.”

Democracy Function Active Citizenry

Author:Rick Perry

“I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.”

Way Firsts Answers Technology Fans Reader Active Obsessed Mail Website Fan Mail

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.”

World Years Firsts Ideas War Country States Reality Existence Conflict Bases Israel Active Israeli Hostage Arab Israeli Conflict

Author:John Podhoretz

“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.”

Thinking Men Years Humans Wisdom Humanity Literature Wise Effects Years Ago Perfection Active Exertion

Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

“Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.”

Reality Grace Active Orientation

Author:Karl Rahner

“I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.”

Thinking Believe Has Beens Jobs Responsibility Lifetime Active Activism Eras Peter Bob Mary Dylan Combining Weavers

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.”

Trying Weight Work Out Active Trailers Push Ups

Author:Norman Reedus

“I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.”

Active

Author:Jeremy Renner

“Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.”

Active Appeals Passive Misfits Maverick

Author:Alan Rickman

“A mind too active is no mind at all.”

Mind Intelligence Intuition Active

Book:The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems

Source: The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems

“I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.”

People Hate Sound I Hate Active Strikes Active Life

Author:Karl Rove

“A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.”

Opportunity Challenges Century Threat Active Core Peaceful Contribution Australia Asia Prosperous Pacific

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.”

People Art Young Community Groups Citizens Concerned Organization Active Neighborhood Association Leisure Civics Worshippers

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.”

Men Body Force Differences United Principles Cases Regard Active Mysterious Atoms Latent

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.”

People Needs Wells Different Matter Body Consciousness Connected Active Educated Defined Different Peoples Vary Cloudy

Author:Annie Besant

“Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.”

Thinking Way Political Natural Revolution Critical Active Resistance Atmosphere Dictatorship Adolescence Marxism Formation Ideological

Author:Jose Saramago

“I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.”

Kind Active Iron Sail Bike Pumps Jocks

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.”

Knows Mind Soul Desire Passion Quality Female Curiosity Active Masculine Cursed Insatiable Female Mind

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.”

Men Wells Responsibility Active Agents Well Being Helpers

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.”

Country Economy Greater Industry Increase Active Operations Productive Banking Rendering

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.”

My Own Issues Movement Concern Concerned Feminist Gender Active Pursuit Good Work Doing Good Feminist Movement

Author:Patti Smith

“Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.”

Government Might Father Citizens Empathy Assuming Critics Active Expected Apathy Founding Serfs

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.”

Men Made Enough Effort Moral Christianity Principles Weak Active Selfishness Subordinates Moral Principles

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.”

Stills Numbers Roles Particular Activity China Active Officials Regions Retired Cooperatives Close Relationship

Author:Maurice Strong

“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”

Evil Active Thought Provoking Passive

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“I've been very active in Missouri.”

Active Missouri

Author:Jim Talent

“Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.”

Ifs Knows Life Needs Mind Happens Success Energy Results Focus Achieve Various Active Focused Things Happen Backgrounds Cricket Frame Of Mind Sportsman Cricketers Foreground

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!”

Ifs Important Body Moving Certain Brain Blood Exercise Healthy Stronger Everyday Active Your Body Mood Muscles Endurance Chemicals Healthy Food Everyday Things

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”

World Made Literature Loses Virtue Active Stillness Hygiene

Book:Reflections upon a sinking ship

Source: Reflections upon a sinking ship

“I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.”

Men Giving Trying Play Helping Sides Involved Foundation Active

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

Men Artist Work Talent Genius Labor Active Lofty Work Effort Talent And Genius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.”

“I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.”

People Feels Active Very Happy Berkeley

Author:Alice Walker

“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”

Teach Patience Active Elders Family Life Older Women Active Life

Author:Alice Walker

“I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.”

Inspirational Feels Play Motivational Running Stuff Fields Yoga Dance Active Tennis Hockey Fitness Feel Better Field Hockey

Author:Emma Watson

“Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.”

People Feels Energy Sleep Study Active Bedtime Sedentary Physically Active

Author:Andrew Weil

“Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.”

Mind Ideas Body Would Be Age Perfect Painting Photography Workers Active Mediums Suits Temper Imagery Mind And Body Sculpting

Author:Edward Weston

“The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.”

Work Out Active

Author:Shaun White

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

Should Joy Spirit Literature Alive Impossible Sorrow Active Cease Dust Organized Restless Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.”

Use Seeing Week Six Seven Active Engagement Users Mobile Seven Days Days Of The Week Desktop

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'”

Home Enjoy Church Talking Leader Calling Activity Members My Favorite Active Visiting Priesthood

Author:David A. Bednar

“As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.”

Needs Jobs Force Air Mines Members Bases Army Active Officers Warfare Air Force Personnel Caucus Enlisted

Author:Allen Boyd

“I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.”

Active Kindles Ipads

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.”

World War Groups Members Thirds Meetings Committed Active Violent France War Of The Worlds Republic Founders Supporter Fascists Second World War Cosmetics Headquarters

Author:Geoff Mulgan

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