Stirred Quotes

178 Stirred quotes by 157 unique authors

Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of… — Rabindranath Tagore
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,… — Charles Dickens
A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. — Ian Fleming
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a… — Hayden Fry
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in… — David Milne
Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light… — John Muir
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference.… — Elizabeth Edwards
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress… — Adolf Hitler
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred. — Soichiro Honda
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. — George McGovern
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — George Santayana
When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses… — Simon Sinek
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think… — Billy Sunday
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred… — H.G. Wells
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within… — Edgar Allan Poe
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone,… — Steve Martin
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. — Aldous Huxley
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
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,… — Aldous Huxley
What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet… — George Eliot

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