Passiveness Example Quotes & Sayings

An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory ... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way or perceiving and responding to the world. And yet each of us is unique, the product on an irreproducible set of causal events. Given that we cannot judge people on the basis of their biology or their fitness with respect to some arbitrary criterion of optimality, we have to conclude that all human variants are equally valid. (This conclusion can be derived purely on ethical grounds as well.) None of us is advantaged because of evolution over any other, whether strong or weak, able-bodied or disabled, woman or man, black, white, or any other color. Simply existing as part of the human species, each person automatically has an inherent worth and dignity. — Greg Graffin

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights. — John Ashcroft

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her. — Patrick Rothfuss

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please. — Frederick The Great

Youth must triumph ... now. Afterwards, it will be life. — Jose Garcia Villa

Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences. — Brendan I. Koerner

But of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to the general proscription against gluttony, and once engaged, even if engaged initially in the service of religion, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly, until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself. — David Berlinski

She's your soft place, son. A man needs a soft place to land when life gets fucked. — Nicole Jacquelyn

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that? — Loudon Wainwright III

Shut that thing down," Nick said. "You're corrupting my creative centers with static." "That's what she said," Cath said, closing her laptop. — Rainbow Rowell

Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we're all connected. — Brownell Landrum

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him. — James M. Barrie

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being. — Francois Delsarte