Activity Quotes

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons

Teacher, Writing, Sense

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
Gunther Schuller

Parents, Sense, Wanted

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
James Forrestal

Peace, Economic, Trade

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
John Glover

Open, Outside, Flame

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Bridget Riley

Mental, Focusing, Optical

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Bridget Riley

Spiritual, Values, Painting

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
Wilhelm Ostwald

Same, Whole, Growth

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.
Peter Orszag

Business, Important, Trying

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
Peter Orszag

Remember, Economic, Budget

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter

Government, Far, Both

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
Christopher Gadsden

Life, Age, Cannot

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.
Thad Cochran

Moving, Job, Control

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.
Jerrry A. Webman

Someone, Economic, Interest

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.
Robert Brady

Identity, Based, Sexual

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
Isaac Rosenberg

Nature, Live, Made

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies

Music, Sharing, Users

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope Francis I

Politics, Good, Die

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.
Kerry Healey

Education, Health, Sex

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
Bobby Ray Inman

Best, Tell, Coming

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
John Hall

Hope, Freedom, Feeling

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.
Justin Amash

Rather, Private, Names

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
Lucas Neff

Time, Hope, Working

When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?
Brian Baird

Political, Why, Honor

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Simone Signoret

Family, Future, After

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
Alex Lowe

Whole, Value, Journey

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
Arthur E. Waite

Sense, Ideas, General

Even if you're ill, physical activity at a lower level will help you beat it.
Jim Loehr

Help, Level, Physical

Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really.
Miranda Leek

Father, Everything, Daughter

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman

Important, Feeling, Goal

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!
John Davidson

Life, Talk, Action

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