Stir Quotes - page 2

The gruel that children's little hands have stirred Is sweeter than nectar. (Thiruvalluvar)
To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man-even a fellow man striving to do the same to you-creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define - what is a bird. View quote
Emma Lazarus
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast. View quote
Ted Hughes
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. View quote
John Cheever
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. View quote
Francis Thompson
The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain. View quote
Conrad Aiken
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. View quote
Carl Sagan
Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. View quote
William Wordsworth
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
In the dark womb where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her. View quote
John Masefield
Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken. View quote
Garth Nix
I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder. View quote
Thomas Chalmers
As for the subject matter in my painting...it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. View quote
William Baziotes
Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. View quote
John Milton
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. View quote
William McFee
God hates it when we stir up strife, disloyalty, or contention among His people. It may happen in the church, but don't you be a part of it. Don't do it. Pray, ask the Lord to make you a peacemaker, and ask the Lord to show you how you can minister support and encouragement to the spiritual leaders of your church. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it. View quote
Nick Tosches
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others. View quote
Robert Greene
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction. (Scott Westerfeld)
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. View quote
Diane Setterfield
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. View quote
John Boyd Orr
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe? View quote
Michael Douglas