Agitaion Quotes & Sayings

Why do you need someone else to tell you what you are? Why can't you just write for the sake of writing? You don't have to be famous to do those things. — Rachel Joyce

Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the onoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress. — Aldous Huxley

Not everyone gets jokes. But to many jokes in one time are never good idea! — Deyth Banger

The press is our chief ideological weapon. — Nikita Khrushchev

Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us) and empiricism (how things are), we have been blaming the world for not fitting the beds of "rational" models, have tried to change humans to fit technology, fudged our ethics to fit our needs for employment, asked economic life to fit the theories of economists, and asked human life to squeeze into some narrative. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever. — Epictetus

All children, including TCKs, face a myriad of developmental tasks as they grow from helpless infants into healthy adults. Among them is the need to develop a strong sense of personal identity as well as group identity, answering the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong? Traditionally, the family and community mirror back the answers and the child sees his or her image reflected in them. — David C. Pollock

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. — Karen Kain

What happens to men sometimes,' his father wants to tell Charlie, 'is that one day all at once they'll understand how much they love their children, as absolutely as a child gives away its own love, and the terrible terms that come with that, - and it proves too much to bear, and they'll not want it, any of it, and they'll back away in fear. — Thomas Pynchon

We've instrumentalized niceness as a way of greasing the social wheels, yet it's often a ruse. We're polite and we don't disagree to get through daily existence with the least degree of friction. But by turning niceness into a lubricant, we've leeched it of meaning. A smile and a nod might signify "Get me out of here!" as much as it means "Nice to meet you." That's — Chris Voss

I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me. — Alan Shearer

Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.
"Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles. — J.K. Rowling

The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out. — Fran Lebowitz

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. — Lord Byron

All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. — Sarah J. Maas

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys. — Roger Clemens