Top 23 Agitates Quotes
#2. The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#3. [The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.
George Washington
#4. When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.
Monica Crowley
#5. When you frown,
it amuses your enemies.
When you sulk,
it gratifies your enemies.
When you cry,
it tickles your enemies.
When you smile,
it agitates them.
When you laugh,
it angers them.
When you glow,
it infuriates them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis De Sade
#7. It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision ... If I could behold all I imagine.
Charlotte Bronte
#8. The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#9. A past incident is not what agitates the mind; it is the amount of attention we give it that unsettles us.
Shubha Vilas
#10. And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.
Alain De Botton
#12. There is nothing that fascinates us more, little that agitates the body more completely. Information warns us of danger, prepares us for action, helps us survive. And it enables us to perform that most magical of all tricks - predicting the future.
John Coates
#13. When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply would be, "You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.
Eknath Easwaran
#14. Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.
Criss Jami
#15. It's good to see you jealous once in a while." He smiles, sun in the woods.
Ally Condie
#16. We were all standing in line waiting for breakfast when one of the caseworkers came in and tap-tap-tap
Christopher Paul Curtis
#17. Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.
Lydia Davis
#18. To be honest, i put myself in the category of people who are best able to give form to their ideas by arguing
John Gianvito
#19. 433. - The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." - Cicero In Marc Ant.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#20. We're all afraid," she said firmly ... "But that didn't stop us.
Lemony Snicket
#21. Let yesterday be a map that guides your steps today, and tomorrow." "The
Lucian Bane
#23. All great wealth was inconsistent with common sense.
(from 'The Fish can Sing
Halldor Laxness
