Stirs Quotes

141 Stirs quotes by 123 unique authors

Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest… — Sarah Doudney
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. — Paul Cezanne
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. — Ibn Arabi
There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance.… — Eugene J. Martin
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live… — Matthew Arnold
Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the… — Dave Barry
Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and… — Thomas S. Monson
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone… — Matthew Simpson
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up. — Jake Gyllenhaal
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. — Margaret Mead
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart… — Augusto Pinochet
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? — Bertrand Russell
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is… — Victor Hugo
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes… — James Allen
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what… — Italo Calvino
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than… — Albert Schweitzer
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace… — Laurence Sterne
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um,… — Libba Bray
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out… — Robert Graves
I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.-… — Markus Zusak

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