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
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers;… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx 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
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
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins 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
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
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright… — David Limbaugh 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
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
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips 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
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
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
To see a man get over his fear and trepidation is like viewing a child remember something to them believed to be… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. — Frederick Douglass 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
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies… — Michel de Montaigne 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
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image