Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows.… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like… — Elizabeth Ann Seton 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
“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Copy Share Image
There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Often, you can feel like God's stirring things in your heart, but then you don't see them when you think that He… — Jen Ledger Copy Share Image
We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. — Tug McGraw Copy Share Image
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — Plato Copy Share Image
We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters… — David Abram Copy Share Image
My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Yet there are those who wonder. There are those who have gentle stirrings. And there are those who have stepped upon the… — Mary Summer Rain Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
