Quotes of Excitable - somelinesforyou

“ They realized that the chief danger in aerial warfare from an excitable and intelligent public would be a clamour for local airships and aeroplanes to defend local interests. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. ”

- Ezra

“ A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct… ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market. ”

- Daniel S. Greenberg
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