Top 610 Active Quotes

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I’ve tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I’m an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it’s too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

I think, when people hear the word ‘philosophy,’ they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice.

I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

I have a routine for a day I’m in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I’m in the gym once or in the gym twice. Then I’ve got a road course routine and an oval routine because they’re different physically.

For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.

My husband has an outstanding record in promoting opportunity for women and the women that he surrounds himself in his staff and the women that he has promoted throughout his career. He’s the father of three daughters. He’s obviously a husband who’s been very supportive of a very active wife with her own career.

How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We’re in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Dr. Esserman, who directs the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, is one of only a few surgeons in the United States willing to put women with D.C.I.S. on active surveillance instead of performing biopsies, lumpectomies or mastectomies.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

I encourage active skepticism – when people are being skeptical because they’re trying to identify the best course of action. They’re trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

I always stay active, even if I’m on vacation.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time – or go bankrupt.

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

I’m so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Brain surgery couldn’t happen without the patient’s own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that’s what makes neurosurgery different.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

I’m actually very active.

There’s a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I’m much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven’t taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven’t been in a blockbuster.

Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel – I’m very active.

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options – it’s a huge burden, but it’s also the most freeing part of our lives.

Many people, men in particular, just can’t not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on – from life, friends, my own life.

I like to stay fit by being generally active.

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

I’ve always been active: netball, hockey, rounders, athletics.

I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

After dealing with so much dark energy and investigating violent people for my job, I value creatures with pure souls – animals, especially dogs. I believe a higher power/god created these creatures to give us balance from people who can be truly evil. I am an active voice and supporter against animal cruelty.

There’s a lot of racism still alive and still active.

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element – there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don’t want a muse.

I’ve been very active in Missouri.

To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I’m on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don’t think I perform in the classic ‘pop star’ sort of way. I’m very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It’s always like a full-on, wild performance, so that’s pretty much like my exercise, I would say.

So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn’t streak or leave you with orange hands.

I think it’s really important to stay active, even when you’re very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.

I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend’s young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don’t have any role at the U.N, but I’m still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

I’m always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I’m not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

I love being active.

Santa Clara County has 23 active Superfund sites, more than any other county in the United States. All of them were designated as such in the mid to late 1980s, and most were contaminated by toxic chemicals involved in making computer parts. Completely cleaning up these chemicals may be impossible.

I don’t go to the gym. I’ve always been very athletic and kept very active. I used to run track. I literally have no desire to get a gym membership.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.