Rousing Quotes

35 Rousing quotes by 32 unique authors

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we… — Tupac Shakur
Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to… — Rabindranath Tagore
What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and… — Joseph Epstein
Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is… — Rabih Alameddine
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy… — Unknown Author
Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing… — Rob Brezsny
John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days. — James Berardinelli
An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream… — Alberto Villoldo
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
Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or… — Unknown Author
Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not… — Diane Wakoski
Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator… — John Fund
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks… — John Milton
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the… — William Howard Taft
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. — Virginia Woolf
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar… — Robert Benchley
Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in… — Arthur Schopenhauer
President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with… — Tina Fey
You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. — Vladimir Lenin
Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth… — Gagan Narang
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling… — Douglas Rushkoff

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