Stirs Quotes

141 Stirs quotes by 123 unique authors

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer… — Steve Busby
There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us. — Unknown Author
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate… — Philip Larkin
When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs… — Thomas Goodwin
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself.… — Gautama Buddha
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to… — Pope John Paul II
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy… — Jeanette Winterson
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young… — Franz Beckenbauer
Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with… — Marcus Buckingham
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system. — Ann Richards
Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels… — Carl Safina
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods… — Janet Lembke
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde
When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a… — Josei Toda
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up? — Robert Southey
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh. — Jentezen Franklin
So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you… — Price Pritchett
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more… — Tullian Tchividjian
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the… — Denis de Rougemont
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your… — Wilferd Peterson
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our… — Lewis Mumford

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