Quotes About Agitation

Nor is woman to blame if the question of her education occupies so much attention. The demands made are not hers--the continual agitation is not primarily of her creating. It is simply the tendency of the age, of which it is only the index. It would be as much out of place to blame the weights of a clock for the moving of the hands, while, acted upon by an unseen, but constant force, they descend slowly but steadily towards the earth.

Simon looked at his hands, which had grown furry. He snarled when he couldn't get them back to looking human, a sign that he was too agitated to wear this skin. Since he didn't want to scare off Heather, he did the sensible thing. He stripped off his clothes, shifted to Wolf, and went to the Liaison's Office to have a few minutes of playtime with Meg.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Na vida de hoje, o mundo só pertence aos estúpidos, aos insensíveis e aos agitados. O direito a viver e a triunfar conquista-se hoje quase pelos mesmos processos por que se conquista o internamento num manicómio: a incapacidade de pensar, a amoralidade e a hiperexcitação.

3. (…) En la vida de hoy, el mundo sólo pertenece a los estúpidos, a los insensibles y a los agitados. El derecho a vivir y a triunfar se conquista hoy con los mismos procedimientos con que se conquista el internamiento en un manicomio: la incapacidad de pensar, la amoralidad y la hiperexcitación. —Libro del Desasosiego, Fernando Pessoa—

Quem tem alma não tem calma

En la vida actual, el mundo sólo pertenece a los estúpidos, los insensibles y los agitados. El derecho a vivir y triunfar se conquista hoy casi a través de los mismos procedimientos con los que se conquista el internamiento en un manicomio: la incapacidad de pensar, la amoralidad y la hiperexcitación.

Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176

Totul este orgoliu ?i incon?tien??. Totul e dorin?? de agita?ie,de a face lucruri,de a l?sa o urm?.

We don't back down from controversy - we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don't.

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.

The sage's ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] "love" or "hate." Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.

La "inquietud revolucionaria" yo la definiría como un desasosiego colectivo que no se atreve a manifestar sus deseos, todos se sienten alterados, enardecidos, los periódicos fomentan la tormenta y la policía le ayuda deteniendo a inocentes,

It is a conservation of momentum: what is diminished by time is augmented by the pencil. As the idea fades, the agitation around it has to increase to keep it alive; and as the scope of the architectural profession also reduces, the designer's visible impact on the object increases, as if to recall lost powers.

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.

As she stared at the restless pixels on the screen, her impatience grew. This agitation was familiar, a paradoxical feeling that built up inside her when she was spending too much time online, as though some force was at once goading her and holding her back. How to describe it? A temporal stuttering, an urgent lassitude, a feeling of simultaneous rushing and lagging behind. It was a horrible, stilted, panicky sensation, hard to put into words.

Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look.

throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host.

Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one's self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words. No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

Talking to her now was like flailing his hands at a storm of hornets. It did nothing, and it stung, and yet he couldn't stop himself.

since Ian got dangerously worked up by that kind of thing. He'd have