88 Quotes About Passive
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
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- Author Julian Barnes
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The answers hardly seemed of consequence. Not much did. I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.
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- Author Elizabeth George
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Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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How can one discover what he feels?""I thought he might perhaps behave — quite differently with you?""No, no. We seem to know each other well but I think that's just because I parade my feelings. He's affectionate, detached, passive, absolutely passive.""He's never told you about that place?""He's never talked about himself at all.
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- Author Ted Chiang
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Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...]Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.
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- Author Frank Lucas
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The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.
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- Author Emile Habiby
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Yes, ever since that time I began looking upward and awaiting their arrival. Either they will transform my monotonous and boring life completely, or they can take me away with them.Is there an alternative?
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