57 Quotes About Passivity

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

YOUNG WOMAN: Time is altered, the years to came are alteredYou know where you will find meI, fear, I, deathI, the memory beyond reachI, the recollection of the tenderness of your handsI, the sadness of our broken lifeI will defeat "it's not my concern" with my anguish

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity.

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

MOST PEOPLE IN the West spend their time waiting for Godot, but of course he never comes. They also wait for the Messiah, but we know he always arrives a day too late. What is everyone waiting for? Divine intervention? The Deus ex machina that solves every problem? Don’t you get it? – no one’s ever coming. Ever. The world-historic figures, the men and women of destiny, aren’t waiting. They’re out doing things, being active, making things happen.

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.