Stirring Quotes - Page 9

• You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.

  Steven Brust

  Suffering, Events, Needs

  "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

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• Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Renewal, Site, Thirst

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• What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

  Alan Watts

  People, Needs, Movement

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• I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

  Nina Bawden

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Poor Quality

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

  Norma McCorvey

  Pregnancy, Office, Dallas

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• It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

  Paul Ryan

  Tired, Wind, Yesterday

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Might, Sound

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• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Civilization, Differences

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.275

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• 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 all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

  Densey Clyne

  Nature, Believe, Ocean

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• I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Exercise, Imagination

  "Graeme Base adds music to his magical illustrations", www.cnn.com. September 1, 1999.

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• Listen to the long stillness:
  New life is stirring
  New dreams are on the wing
  New hopes are being readied:
  Humankind is fashioning a new heart
  Humankind is forging a new mind
  God is at work.
  This is the season of Promise

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Heart, Wings

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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  Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Dream, Real, Odds

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Faith, Men, Blood

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• 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 disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• 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 He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

  Jean Toomer

  Priorities, Faithful, Firsts

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• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Danger, Inches

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.101, Grove Press

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• There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored
  men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So 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, Men, Rights

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• The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

  Bruno Walter

  Men, Creative, Historical

  Bruno Walter, James Austin Galston (1946). “Theme and Variations: An Autobiography”, New York, Knopf

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• Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

  Dorothy Day

  Hands, Expectations, Silence

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• I have such a witness in my spirit that God is releasing entrepreneur giftings. He is and you might be receiving one. I have seen it everywhere, there's stirrings of ideas, creativity in people's minds. There's going to be new businesses and new inventions born because God's bringing his Holy Spirit upon them. There's a real lot of oil on it.

  Patricia King

  Real, Creativity, Ideas

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• I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

  Bill Murray

  Sitting, Chairs, Folding

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• The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Wall, Ideas, Space

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

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• 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 the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Doubt, Ruthlessness

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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