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Tag Name "Agitate" (31)

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Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
Vandana Shiva
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By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
Henepola Gunaratana
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I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
William Cobbett
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Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.
Koichi Tohei
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
Cesare Pavese
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An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.
Jean de la Bruyere
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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
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.
Sun Tzu
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And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!
Rick Riordan
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Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
Julian Bond
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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
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
Walter Savage Landor
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.
Thomas Jefferson
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I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
Andrew Dickson White
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Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.
Frederick Lenz
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
Terry McMillan
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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
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid
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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Susan B. Anthony
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