Stirring Quotes

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

  Jane Goodall

  Blood, Felt

  Jane Goodall (2000). “Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters : the Early Years”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• 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 therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

  Richard Rolle

  Jesus, Love Is, Perfection

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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  Gary Ackerman

  Confused, Philosophy, Hockey

  "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

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• So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

  David S. Baxter

  Giving, World, Enthusiasm

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• I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

  Kurt Busiek

  Drama, Superhero, Larger Than Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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• Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

  Lee Atwater

  Pot, Come Up, Knows

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• Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Rain, Flower

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• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

  Robert Wyland

  Inspirational, Beach, Nature

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• "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

  Kenneth Grahame

  Real, Sight, Next Week

  'The Wind in the Willows' (1908) ch. 2.

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Winning, Power, Men

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Philosophy, Hands

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• I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Ice

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

  Sojourner Truth

  Truth, Waiting, Reform

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end... and thus make your travel dreams come true.

  Wally Byam

  Inspirational, Dream, Travel

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• T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Night, House

  1822 The Night Before Christmas.

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• The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Hurricanes, Miles

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.263, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Needs, Excitement, Feels

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• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Reality, Essence

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• Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

  Denis Diderot

  Design, Religion, Use

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. “Tick, tock.” “Tick, tock,” I agree softly. “It’s time for bed. Tick, tock. Go to sleep.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Sleep, Bed

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.477, Scholastic UK

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• That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Stars, Children, Firefly

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.176, Feiwel & Friends

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• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

  Brendon Burchard

  Adventure, Safety, Comfort

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