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Agitation Quotes - Page 3

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

Stanisław I Leszczyński
Agitation, Repose, Astonishing
François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.164

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, Exhausted
Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

Samuel Johnson
Agitation, Imagine, Appearance
Samuel Johnson (1801). “Idler”, p.191

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

Michel de Montaigne
Spring, Soul, 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

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
Source: therumpus.net

Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah!

Jay Leno
Agitation, Campaigns, Fever

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Jane Austen
Agitation, Critical Moments, May
Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.56

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.

Howard Zinn
Political, Important, Agitation
"Interview with Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States". Interview with Sean Carswell and Todd Taylor, razorcake.org. October 18, 2001.

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

It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

Georges Bataille
Police, Agitation, Needs

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