#active

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#beauty #humor #life #people #beauty

I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it. ↗

— Myles Horton

#doing #experience #organizing #theorizing #change

Do you have any idea how attractive you are? Well, I'm better than roseanne Barr, I suppose. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#self-deprecation #love

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#balance #feminine #masculine #receptive #yoga

I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#fashion #fashion

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#comes #defect #defective #individual #likeness

I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong. ↗

— Emerson Fittipaldi

#cart #chris #i #i think #new

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#before #believed #crime #department #every

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

#attractive #certainly #consider #cooperation #especially

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former