Agitate Quote by Andrew Dickson White Download Open image “I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.” — Andrew Dickson White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agitate Bags Four Hundred Men Miles Motivational sports Permit Sports Thirty Wind
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.”… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.” — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the… — Andrew Dickson White 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
As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naïve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see what happens… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue… — John Avlon 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
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands;… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
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