passive quotes

Patience is passive, resignation is active.

- Penelope Mary Fitzgerald
  Innocence.

But reading is not idleness†it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  Journal entry, 4 Jan.