Stirring Quotes

173 Stirring quotes by 153 unique authors

Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon… — Mary Webb
My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies. — David Massengill
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten… — Carl Sagan
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,… — Carl Sagan
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the… — Richard Dawkins
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I… — Sojourner Truth
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans… — Paul Ryan
Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but… — Malcolm X
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… — Mark Twain
I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I… — Maurice Sendak
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us… — Sonia Sotomayor
There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So… — Barack Obama
"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -… — Kenneth Grahame
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as… — Alfred Rosenberg
My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with… — Samuel Beckett
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by… — Bruno Walter
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content.… — Dorothy Day
Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an… — Leatrice Eiseman
Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. .… — Joseph Parker
The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. — Dan Quayle
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the… — Winston Churchill
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze. — Robert Breault
The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you… — Rajneesh
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth. — Saadi
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no… — Pierre Corneille

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