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Quotes About Agitation

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
~ Tom Robbins
people with negative attitudes don't have a learner's heart. Dumping such individuals off your team will hurt in the short run, but not in the long run. You have to remember that star performers with an attitude put a constant drag on everyone else. The price you pay for their performance is constant agitation. People with negative attitudes can't help but stir the pot.
~ Kevin Leman
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
1.3 Restlessness
~ Carlo Cercignani
I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
~ Carrie Fisher
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
~ George Gordon Byron
Whatever little we have gained, we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
~ Daniel O'Connell
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
~ Cicero
Closing his eyes, he made it about fifteen minutes before his tossing and turning rode those pj bottoms so far up his crotch he felt like he could cough flannel. If he was doing the mattress and pillow thing, he usually slept naked and now he knew why. This was f'in ridiculous.
~ J.R. Ward
The cabin was warm, thanks to her, a little trick of molecular agitation of the air that was enhanced by her being pissed off. The heat she generated was not cheery like that from a fire however—more like the kind of hot flash you got along with a case of the shits.
~ J.R. Ward
Ants under the skin. As Rhage transferred his weight from one shitkicker to the other, he felt like his bloodstream had come to a soft boil and the bubbles were tickling the underside of every fucking square inch of his flesh.
~ J.R. Ward
Next one of you mouthy assholes makes me pound my desk again, I'm throwing you the fuck out." On that note, he reached down, picked up the cowering ninety-pound retriever, and settled George in his lap. "You're freaking out my dog and it's pissing me off." As
~ J.R. Ward
Marissa could not get comfortable in her bed. No matter which way she turned or where she put the pillows, she was irritated. Somehow, her mattress had been filled with rocks, and her sheets had turned into sandpaper
~ J.R. Ward
He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying 'Am,' and sudden slitting of the eyes to see everywhere; and all the time he was grabbing me by the ribs and talking, talking
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
~ Wendell Phillips
Wars and rumours of wars.
~ Matthew
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
~ Yevgeny Baratynsky
feels like i'm 'seething' with the inability to sleep…
~ Tao Lin
mental noting may help you. Are you agitated? Note "agitation." Are you gripped in tension? Note "tension." Do you feel your pulse beating or your heart pounding? Just note it as such.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
The instant we agree to feel fear or vulnerability, greed or agitation, we are holding our life with an unconditionally friendly heart.
~ Tara Brach
I have a possessive female spirit. I was also told I have a demonic attachment. They make me sick. They make me agitated.
~ Zak Bagans
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa