Stirred Quotes

178 Stirred quotes by 157 unique authors

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life… — Frank Herbert
As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and… — Arundhati Roy
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred… — Diane Setterfield
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain. — Andy Stanley
Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable… — William Butler Yeats
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that… — Garth Stein
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred? — Karen Marie Moning
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie… — Sue Monk Kidd
And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something… — Patrick Rothfuss
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came… — Oscar Wilde
The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred… — Sue Monk Kidd
Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs… — Erin Hunter
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so… — Orhan Pamuk
it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have… — George Orwell
Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going."… — Michael Scott
Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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