Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.
Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.
I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.
I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good. '
This is passive-aggression in action.
