Rouse Quotes

74 quotes by 61 authors

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone. — Sophocles
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our… — Gustave Flaubert
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath… — Lyman Abbott
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as… — Swami Vivekananda
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is… — Swami Vivekananda
But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts,… — Charlene Costanzo
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our… — Peter Kreeft
Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial rÃ¨gime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them. — Xunzi
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them. — Ron Suskind
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then… — Franz Kafka
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge — FÃ©lix J. Palma
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in… — Wilfred Owen
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape,… — Philip Larkin
It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will… — John of Kronstadt
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if… — C.S. Lewis
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. — Walter Pater

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