Passive Quotes - Page 3

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.

Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.

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.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

Privacy is not for the passive.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

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.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

This is passive-aggression in action.

There's no such thing as a passive audience.