#active

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. ↗

— William Petty

#consequence #father #here #killing #labor

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#another #another way #essentially #express #human

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#ago #effect #exertion #faith #happy

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. ↗

— Gail Porter

#attractive #baggy #i #jeans #looking

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim. ↗

— Jane Powell

#attractive #being #being strong #ditch #idea

There are not many roles where women are really active. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#many #really #roles #where #women

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#destroy #harm #infrastructure #lives #our

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#attractive #end #in the end #individual #make

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#because #desk #direct #directing #down

A mind too active is no mind at all. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#mind #too