activity Quotes

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.