No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
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