Rouse Quotes

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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. — Roger Ebert
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. — Jean Racine
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws… — Samuel Johnson
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great… — William Shakespeare
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which… — William Shakespeare
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon… — Bertrand Russell
Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended… — Joshua Reynolds
George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each… — Will Rogers
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and… — Terence McKenna
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction… — Gertrude Stein
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his… — C.S. Lewis
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. — Kenneth Oppel
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the… — Emma Goldman
I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naÃ¯ve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would… — Charlotte Bronte
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more… — William Nicholson
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead.… — Anne Bronte
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of… — Abraham Verghese
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief… — A. E. Housman

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