Roused Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

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-preservationâ€”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
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains… — Max Muller
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused… — Anna Brackett
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I… — Bill Vaughan
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off,… — Mary Garden
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. — Orison Swett Marden
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. — Bertrand Russell
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. — Walter Scott
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. — Jessamyn West
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness. — Frederick Douglass
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I… — Jane Austen
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but… — Milan Kundera
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep… — Edwin Morgan
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when… — Robert Schumann
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously… — Viktor E. Frankl

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