Passive Quotes - Page 2

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

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

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

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.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.