Quotes About Agitation
For some people, a fixed state of irritation is oxygen. I understand this all too well.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
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Her calmness enraged me.
~ Madeline Miller
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Pentru tanarul Lennan urma apoi o perioada stranie, in care nu-si dadea seama de la un minut la altul daca era sau nu fericit, cautand sa fie mereu cu Anna, agitandu-se daca nu reusea, necajindu-se daca ea vorbea sau zambea altuia;cand se afla insa alaturi de ea tot nelinistit si nemultumit era, suferind din pricina timiditatii sale
~ John Galsworthy
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Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people." And had I discovered if there were any communists behind the disruptions?
~ John Howard Griffin
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Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness.
~ John Kennedy Toole
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
~ E. W. Howe
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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
~ John Abizaid
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You want one civil war, brah?
~ Unknown
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
~ Mason Cooley
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El miedo era como una copa de pánico cuyo contenido se agitaba en mi interior, amenazando con verterse de un momento a otro.
~ Madeline Miller
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I think it possible that I have watched too many blue movies for it to have a lasting hold on me. If you grow accustomed to wall-to-wall, even the slightest shred of mystery or plot can become an agitation. Who cares why these people have found themselves in this banal, suburban tract home in Burbank? He is not a delivery man; she is not a bored housewife. They are not the stars---their orifices are. Let them open.
~ Maggie Nelson
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Your child utters a piercing scream, and you rush into his room. He appears wild-eyed, anxious, frightened. His pupils are dilated, sweat is covering his forehead, and as you pick him up to hug him you notice his heart is pounding and his chest heaving. He is inconsolable. Your heart is full of dread, and it almost seems as if some evil spirit has gripped your child. After five to fifteen minutes, the agitation and confused state finally subside. This is night terror.
~ Unknown
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All of them had a restlessness in common.
~ John Steinbeck
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Silent they sat, James aware of her agitation but puzzled as to the cause, Agatha aware of his puzzlement but not trusting her voice to put him at ease. She was trying to control a strange commotion in her breast, a kind of flutter or tremor caused by his invitation to Ireland.
~ Unknown
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What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall
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Of all the modes by which love is brought into being, of all the agents which disseminate the holy evil, surely one of the most efficacious is this great gust of agitation
~ Marcel Proust
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Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then, sweeps over the human spirit. For then the creature in whose company we are seeking amusement at the moment, her lot is cast, her fate and ours decided, that is the creature whom we shall henceforward love.
~ Marcel Proust
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She remembered all the years in which my grandmother and she had refrained from speaking to me about my work and the need for a healthier way of life which, I used to say, the agitation into which their exhortations threw me alone prevented me from beginning, and which, notwithstanding their obedient silence, I had failed to pursue.
~ Marcel Proust
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Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
~ Frederick Douglass
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
~ Frederick Douglass
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4. Now say, "And that makes you feel angry/frustrated/ disappointed/upset or what exactly…." Pick the word you think best describes what the person feels. If the person corrects you, ask the person to say what the actual feeling is and repeat it back and get another "Yes." Remember that when someone attaches a word to a feeling, it lowers agitation. That's critical.
~ Mark Goulston
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By the time of Santokh Singh's death Bhindranwale's men were known to have killed two policemen and ten civilians, attempted to murder a senior civil servant and planted a bomb in the office of a deputy inspector-general of police. There had been several other bomb explosions and attempts to derail trains, one successful. An airliner had been hijacked
~ Unknown
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They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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