Roused Quotes

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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and… — Frederick Douglass
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ...… — Subhas Chandra Bose
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly… — Etienne de La Boetie
God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and… — Justin Martyr
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,… — Mao Zedong
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. — John Dryden
The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from… — Lucy Larcom
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the… — Margaret Fuller
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire… — Ayn Rand
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the… — David O. McKay
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. — Swami Vivekananda
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every… — Frederick Douglass
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above… — Charlotte Bronte
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet… — Charles Caleb Colton
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than… — Georges Duhamel
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me… — Will Self
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how… — John Calvin
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… — Woodrow Wilson
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men… — Charles Dickens
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself,… — Euripides

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