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Quotes About Agitation

T]he Secretary of State wants to avoid giving the impression that while the United States is willing to intervene actively to protect its commercial interests, it is not willing to move on behalf of the Christian minorities." Dulles went on to complain about the agitation in the U.S. on behalf of Armenians, Greeks, and Palestinian Jews. "I've been kept busy trying to ward off congressional resolutions of sympathy for these groups.
~ Christopher Simpson
I irritate; therefore I am.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Creative agitation can serve you well. Embrace it. Look into that dark hole for answers, not fear.
~ Chuck Wendig
overseers and bosses had increased their scrutiny and would be extra vigilant on the full moon, the white beacon that so often agitated the slave with a mind to run.
~ Colson Whitehead
She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.
~ Virginia Woolf
I am rocked from side to side by the violence of my emotion.
~ Virginia Woolf
Ma la bellezza non era tutto. La bellezza aveva questo guaio: veniva troppo immediatamente, veniva troppo completamente. Fermava la vita - la gelava. Ci si dimenticava le piccole agitazioni; l'arrossire, il pallore, qualche strana distorsione, qualche luce o ombra, che rendeva per un momento riconoscibile la faccia e tuttavia le dava una qualità che in seguito si vedeva per sempre.
~ Virginia Woolf
Being in a room with that many people was starting to make me itch.
~ Laura Anne Gilman
My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.
~ Laura Kasischke
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
~ Charles Dickens
Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels.
~ Charles Dickens
The prospect of seeing them no more, contributed greatly to calm her agitation, and, taking up a book, she composed herself to read.
~ Charles Dickens
No hay compensación para una actitud o modo de pensar rebelde. Ninguna cantidad de buenas obras o entrega económica puede compensar la realidad de que usted esté en desobediencia. Lo que cosecha de esta actitud es una continua agitación interior. No hay paz para el corazón rebelde.
~ Charles F. Stanley
It is no peace of mine
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
They did not like the sensation of having things vibrating on their shells, though. It made them angry. Very angry.
~ Guy N. Smith
great waves seemed to billow from him – impatience, frustration, criticism, irritation.
~ James Herriot
The more you stir up crap the more it's going to smell.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The meaning of the midlife affair is the imperative to go back and pick up what was left behind in one's development. Since what was undeveloped agitates from below consciousness, it is still unknown.
~ James Hollis, Ph.D.
Best way to stir the crazy pot? Wrap your dogma in an American flag and wait to see who bites
~ James Patterson
I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.
~ Richard Wagner
raise less corn and more hell.
~ Thomas Frank
If I want to turn up to the NWA and cause some noise, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
~ Marty Scurll
What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!
~ Jonathan Davis
Negative conversation adversely affects circumstances. Certainly talk of a tense and nervous nature enhances inner agitation.
~ Norman Vincent Peale