Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman

As a culture, we really like our food passive.

Ali Wong
Ali Wong

My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had to fart, he'd do it in the library. He did not care. He was like, 'I don't know these people. I'm uncomfortable, and I need to let it go.'

Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts

In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its environment or mutations in its genes.

Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman

It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.

Amber Mark
Amber Mark

'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy.

Andrew Luck
Andrew Luck

The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

Chauncey Wright
Chauncey Wright

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Choi Woo-shik
Choi Woo-shik

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.