"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though……" — Jonathan Swift

More Convulsion Quotes

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• The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated… — Rex Reed
• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them… — Abraham Lincoln
• We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years,… — Everett Dirksen
• Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men… — Thomas Carlyle
• Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing… — Abraham Lincoln
• Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is… — Arianna Huffington
• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
• The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not… — Emily Greene Balch
• I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a… — Emily Dickinson
• The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest… — Theodore Roosevelt
• The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion… — Thomas Jefferson

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