Quotes of Listless - somelinesforyou

“ Programmers can be lazy. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. ”

- Herman Melville

“ It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater. ”

- Edward Albee

“ Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. ”

- Robin Morgan

“ The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. ”

- Dean William R. Inge
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