We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
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.
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
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. '
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.
I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.
I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor. As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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.