This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah! — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving… — Lisa Lang Copy Share Image
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image