activity Quotes

Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

The authority of science ... promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies.... Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality.... In fact, to \'think\' such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this stout-hearted activity can the strength to support the physical and spiritual suffering of injury and death be nourished.

We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for <br />deeper meanings.