Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust 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
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski 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
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame. — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
