“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation? — Stanisław I Leszczyński 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
“The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.” — Paul Kengor 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
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
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in… — Chinmayananda Saraswati 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
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
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
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to… — Clara Zetkin 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
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass 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
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
“Bodily agitation, then, is an enemy to the spirit. And by agitation I do not necessarily mean exercise or movement. There is… — Thomas Merton 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
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
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
