Stirred Quotes
178 quotes by 162 authors
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even…
— James A. Baldwin
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with…
— Jacques Prevert
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Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we…
— Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
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Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard;…
— George Parsons Lathrop
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang…
— Sara Teasdale
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or…
— Samuel Smiles
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such…
— Michael Faraday
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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots,…
— John Milton
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set…
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The…
— Sarah Doudney
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The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of…
— Freeman Dyson
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
— Thomas Cole
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The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of…
— William Henry Ogilvie
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I’m never shaken or stirred.
— Idris Elba
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
— Carl Sagan
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye,…
— Alastair Reynolds
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