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  • In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011
  • To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.

    Sweet   Fall   Taken  
    John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.438
  • Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

  • [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

    Loyalty   Jobs   Science  
  • The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

  • Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

  • There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

    Dance   Block   Yoga  
    "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
  • All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

    Struggle   Soul   Unrest  
  • It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

    Dream   Issues   People  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

    Mind   Unrest   Calm  
  • Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

    Sorrow   Despair   Unrest  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press
  • Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

    "Ann Coulter, the pin-up model" by Elana Schor, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.
  • To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

  • There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

  • Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout the oil-exporting Middle East. Yet the Obama administration once again seems to see no crisis. It has curtailed new leases for offshore oil exploration for seven years and exempted thousands of acres in the West from new drilling. It will not reconsider opening up small areas of Alaska with known large oil reserves.

    Country   Years   Oil  
  • The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.

    Wisdom   Country   Men  
  • Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

    WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”
  • In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

    Mean   Adventure   Ideas  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
  • The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

  • ... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

    Powerful   Drama   Heart  
    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.151, 谷月社
  • Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

    Baby   Children   Husband  
  • In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

    Jesus   Children   Book  
    ""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.
  • Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

    Giving   Joy   Unrest  
    John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.69, Рипол Классик
  • Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

    Laughter   Voice   Giving  
    Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”
  • There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

    "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
  • Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

    Life   Passion   Joy  
    The Week, October 16, 1958.
  • Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

  • Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

  • This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

    War   Loss   Aggravation  
  • Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.

    Country   Men   Race  
    Timothy Thomas Fortune (2008). “T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928”
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