Agitation famous quotes

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Mistake #Eels #Agitation

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Agitation #Answers #Quiet

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Stupid #Eye #Agitation

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
-- Charlie Cook

#Talking #Risk #Agitation

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
-- Crystal Eastman

#Fighting #Agitation #Indifference

Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.
-- Eknath Easwaran

#Running #Mind #Agitation

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
-- Ernestine Rose

#Opposites #Agitation #Motto

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
-- Eugene V. Debs

#Progress #Agitation #Born

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Agitation #Doe #Littles

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Wisdom #Art #Agitation

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
-- Francois Mauriac

#Soul #Doubt #Agitation

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Government #Agitation #Prose

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
-- James A. Garfield

#Errors #Agitation #Politics

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
-- Johann Most

#Country #America #Agitation

There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil,
-- Kamal Haasan

#Love You #Agitation #Mumbai

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
-- Karl Radek

#Views #Agitation #Mass

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
-- Lord Byron

#Time #Giving #Agitation

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Rising Up #Evil #Agitation

When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.
-- Monica Drake

#Anxiety #Soul #Agitation

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
-- Nigel Calder

#Discovery #Agitation #Arguing

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
-- Ravi Ravindra

#Agitation #Passive #Needed

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
-- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#Benefits #Publicity #Agitation

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
-- Robert Peel

#Law #Mold #Agitation

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

#Two #Agitation #Quiet

Agitation gives birth to creation.
-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Giving #Agitation #Birth

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Grace #Phrases #Agitation

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
-- William Cobbett

#Agitation #Stomach

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.
-- Kate Zambreno

#Notebook #Years #Agitation

Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Slavery #Letters #Agitation

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.
-- Frances Power Cobbe

#Responsibility #Giving #Agitation

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
-- Hans Koning

#Commitment #Humanity #Agitation

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
-- William Falconer

#Agitation #Care #Bills