Stirrings Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and… — Lewis Mumford
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them;… — Algernon Blackwood
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country:… — Bruce Chatwin
I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as… — Densey Clyne
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which… — Jean Toomer
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to… — Martin E. Marty
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every… — H. L. Mencken
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into… — Eric Hoffer
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. — Herman Melville
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress. — Steven Pinker
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In… — Brennan Manning
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring.… — Kathryn Lasky
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato… — Charles Baudelaire
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and… — Eric Hoffer
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism… — Martin Filler
The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to… — George Bataille

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