Rouse Quotes

74 Rouse quotes by 61 unique authors

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 règime, 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
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

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