Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

Bertrand Russell

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

Leo Mazzone

He's a solid guy, a solid pitcher. Just because he's soft-spoken doesn't mean there's not a lot of intensity there.

Tom Massolio

I thought we rebounded really well. We played with intensity -- there was not a big crowd, but we played with intensity.

Joe Girardi

I think you'll see a lot more intensity in this camp.

Laurie Pirtle

I think we were just shell-shocked going into the overtime. We didn't come out with the same intensity in overtime that we had the rest of the game.

Ed Rappaport

There aren't too many hurricanes that make landfall with this intensity in the Pacific,

Jonathan Cheechoo

We matched them better physically and we matched their intensity through the whole game. Every win is big for us. We are trying to get back into the playoff race.

Kelli Parker

We lost some intensity and made some mistakes. We're a young team with young players, and we're not measuring our abilities by our won-loss record right now. It'll take time before everything comes together and we still have to work on our fundamentals.

Rich Rodriguez

I did not think our intensity level was what it should be.

Joe Gallegos

In that first game, we jumped all over them early. Then we lost our intensity and it stayed down. We didn't play to our ability.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Mike Marchand

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Sonia Sotomayor

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

John Pilger

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.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.