Stirring Quotes

173 Stirring quotes by 153 unique authors

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man… — Jules Verne
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss… — Barbara Kingsolver
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you… — Regina Doman
And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us.… — Ian Fleming
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. — Ann Voskamp
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. — Albert Camus
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being… — Madeleine L'Engle
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… — Albert Camus
I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put… — Tasha Tudor
You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I… — Gregory Maguire
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black… — Markus Zusak
It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths… — Virginia Woolf
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or… — Charles de Lint
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and… — Walt Whitman
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? — H.G. Wells
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and… — William Shakespeare
Eric followed Vlad Tepes’s stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I… — Charlaine Harris
This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither… — Suzanne Collins
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers. — Shannon Hale

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