Active
Further information: Active voiceThe active voice is the most commonly used in many languages and represents the "normal" case, in which the subject of the verb is the agent.
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Famous quotes containing the word active:
“Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.”
—Robert Havighurst (20th century)