Shaken Quotes

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. (Denis Diderot)
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. View quote
William Henry Harrison
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. View quote
Emil Cioran
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. View quote
Gottlob Frege
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. View quote
Edward Said
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. (Samuel Rutherford)
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top. View quote
Abby Sunderland
Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them. View quote
Anthony Trollope
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. View quote
John W. Campbell
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them. View quote
Denis Diderot
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based. View quote
Niels Bohr
When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die? View quote
Thomas Hood
Even geniuses get the blues. The more I write the less substance I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move its eyes are baleful it is as still as death itself -- and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep. View quote
Joseph Conrad
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . . View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me. View quote
Rick Riordan
I haven't shaken my fists at the moon. View quote
Ian Dury