Stir Quotes

313 Stir quotes by 263 unique authors

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? — Bertrand Russell
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not… — Sharon Salzberg
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations… — Simon Sinek
What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent… — Matt Taibbi
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. — Francis Thompson
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir… — Douglas Rushkoff
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. — William Shakespeare
When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that… — George MacDonald
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will… — Tom Robbins
Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough,… — William H. Gass
Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em… — Robert Penn Warren
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake… — Graham Chapman
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and… — Daphne du Maurier
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...… — Joss Whedon
A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the… — Banana Yoshimoto
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. — John Keats
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to… — William Shakespeare
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! — Salman Rushdie
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can… — Ansel Adams

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