Active Quotes

• We attract a young, hip, active, energetic customer base, and that development seems to be attuned to that demographic.

  

  Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
  • Young
  • Development
  • Customers

• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  

  David Cannadine
  • Compassion
  • Righteous
  • Demonic

• I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Trying
  • Things
  • Million

• I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Person
  • Active
  • Sedentary

• I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and writing?" And I know it should not be as aggravating, but I know no one ever asks a male writer that. Or, any male that.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Balance

• None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Enjoy
  • Littles
  • Burden

• What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Political
  • Interest
  • Influence

• What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Real
  • Stories
  • Honest

• I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Enjoy

• If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Car
  • Race
  • Skateboarding

• I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Hurt
  • Jump
  • I Am

• We - Russian side is ready to be as active as American side is ready.

  

  Dmitry Peskov
  • Ready
  • Side
  • Active

• My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

  

  Henry Taube
  • Interest
  • Chicago
  • Aspect

• I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Trying
  • Support
  • Careers

• Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Active
  • Environments
  • Classrooms

• If you've been to the city of Malmo in Sweden, or to Berlin or to Hamburg or to London or to Paris in the suburbs, or Rotterdam in my own country. You see many cities where there is a city within a city - where even today in the United Kingdom - I don't know if you're aware of that - there are even sharia courts active, whether it's rulings that the worth of a woman is half of that of a man.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Men
  • Country
  • Today

• Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

  

  Nuala O'Faolain
  • Humans
  • Active
  • Passive

• As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

  

  William Thurston
  • Mathematics
  • Asking
  • Structure

• Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Management
  • Cost
  • Winner

• I've always had an active imagination.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Imagination
  • Active

• I understand. He has got to do it for his knee. He has to get it right. He said he has never been so bored. Having to sit in one place when he has been so active is driving him nuts.

  

  Gary Player
  • Place
  • Driving
  • Nuts

• People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Chance
  • Lucky
  • Incredibles

• Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

  

  Deborah Day
  • Choice
  • Active
  • Responses

• I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Doctors

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