What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation. — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
“If one can remain in peace during agitation and anxiety; that is a real true of peace.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence. — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one.… — Monica Drake Copy Share Image
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria… — Muhammadu Buhari Copy Share Image
We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
