activity Quotes

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

Islam abhors and absolutely condemns terrorism and any terrorist activity.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is.<br />[...]<br />Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game,

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.

Been meddling, have you?Ђќ Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. 'You must admit they didn't have much in the way of a defense plan,Ђќ Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. 'You just can't help yourself, can you?

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself continuing a very ancient tradition that goes back to Socrates and Epicurus, which is that to be a philosopher is to try and learn how to die. In learning how to die, one learns how to live.

The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time. In the four years that I am actually working in a proper job, I am earning money and I'm also writing with a lot of discipline on the side.

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

All growth depends upon activity.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.