Stirring Quotes

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.

— Thomas Hood

“He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir.”

— Patti Smith

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

— Jane Goodall

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

— Lee Atwater

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

— William Wordsworth

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

— Christopher Isherwood

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

— Charlaine Harris

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them…

— Nina Bawden

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world,…

— Pierre Corneille

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

My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.

— David Massengill

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the…

— Ernest Shackleton

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them…

— Albert Camus

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of…

— Lewis Mumford

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain…

— E. B. White

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in…

— Francis Parkman

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution…

— Brian Skerry

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same…

— Densey Clyne

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

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years…

— Martin Filler

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

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

— Richard Dawkins

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored…

— Sojourner Truth

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,…

— Eric Hoffer

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

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by…

— Pierre Bayle

One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks,…

— Michael Chabon

“a spoon is a great tool for stirring soup but it’s not a recipe.”

— Chris Voss

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

— Saadi

There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

— William Henry Irwin

We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.

— Herman Melville

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

— Anonymous

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

— Malcolm X