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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible (Old Testament)— Proverbs15:1.
I charge you,O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Bible (Old Testament)— Song of Solomon 2:7.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34-9.
In the dark room 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.
John Edward Masefield— 1910 'C.L.M.'.
Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd;How long, how short, we know not:—this we know,Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.
robert blair— Part I, line 417.
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
david bowie— Quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60
Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star.
Francis Thompson— The Mistress of Vision (1913).
Low stir of leaves and dip of oarsAnd lapsing waves on quiet shores.
john greenleaf whittier— Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lilienthal’s enthusiastic efforts to arouse others may yet prove his most valuable contribution to the solution of the problem. What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.
wilbur wright— Letter to Octave Chanute (1 June 1900)
the set pieces of your faces stir me — leading citizens — but not in the same way.
william carlos williams— "Apology"
A conquest of this kind is never finished; the contingency remains, and, so that he may assert his will, man is even obliged to stir up in the world the outrage he does not want. But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.
Simone de Beauvoir— Conclusion (The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947))
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
cory doctorow— Microsoft Research DRM talk(17 June 2004)
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
george gissing— As quoted in ''The Book Of Us : A Guide To Scrapbooking About Relationships (2005) Angie Pedersen, p. 46
Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.
joaquin miller— "The Larger College".
"Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken."
garth nix— p. 60. (Abhorsen (2003))
"In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
enoch powell— Note: the first sentence was Powell's own quotation from one of his constituents.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. – In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? – Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
— Often misattributed to Tryon Edwards. This quote does appear on p. 23 of Edwards' compilation, A Dictionary of Thoughts; however, it is clearly identified there as a quote by Hugh Blair, the Scottish author and preacher.
— A genuine Tryon Edwards quote on the subject of anxiety appears above in the Sourced section (from p. 22 of A Dictionary of Thoughts)
By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wonder'd at.
— William Shakespeare in King Henry IV Part 1, Act 3 Scene 2, lines 46-47.
Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 1, line 158.
They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-1615), Part II, Chapter XXXVII.
In an important sense, then, an aphorism is the “pure fool” of discourse, being only simply appearance. Yet the attempt to find it out will stir up the fermentation on which it rests, much in the way that Oedipus brings himself to light. The aphorism presents itself as an answer for which we know not the question.
— Tracy B. Strong (American political science academic, author), in Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, p. 132, University of Illinois Press (2001)
But light as any wind that blows So fleetly did she stir, The flower, she touch'd on, dipt and rose, And turned to look at her.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Talking Oak, Stanza 33, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 253-54
Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little Flower! I'll make a stir, Like a sage astronomer.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, To the Small Celandine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 91.
No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
john keats— John Keats, Hyperion (1818-19), Book I, line 7
With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger.
— James Wilson, "Of the Natural Rights of Individuals" (1790-1792). Wilson was a leading framer of the U.S. Constitution.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.
— Macbeth, Scene III
