Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.
I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.
Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.
Faith is an active creative force.
The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.