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

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.
Bill Toomey

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Stanislav Grof

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
Richard Perle

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.
Brendan Fraser

Science is a self-sufficient activity.
Jonathan Miller

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
Dylan Moran

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.
Jacques Barzun

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.
Hermann Maier

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
Dave Barry

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.
Richard Rogers

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.
Niklaus Wirth

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
Gavin Bryars

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
Paul Gauguin

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

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

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

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
Perry Christie

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
Kate Millett