Stirring Quotes
173 Stirring quotes by 153 unique authors
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The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
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But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots…
— Unknown Author
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.…
— Chris Hadfield
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The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky…
— Peter F. Hamilton
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Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.
— Gary Hamel
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You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But…
— Steven Brust
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead…
— Alan Watts
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No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic…
— David Brainerd
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Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning…
— Kamala Markandaya
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the…
— James Gleick
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Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute…
— Harvey Broome
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I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came…
— George Harrison
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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things…
— Nina Bawden
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece…
— Joseph Epstein
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The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of…
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
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I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.
— Richard Branson
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I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me.…
— Norma McCorvey
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For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and…
— Richard Rolle
Who Wrote These Stirring Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 173 Stirring Quotes, led by these top contributors: