Stirring Quotes

173 Stirring quotes by 153 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul. — William Wordsworth
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. — Kurt Vonnegut
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. — George Orwell
It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. — Sam Levenson
An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to… — Judith Orloff
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing… — Charles Dickens
I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled… — Iwan Rheon
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and… — Nicolas Caussin
You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers... — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

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