Stirred Quotes
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
— Book XXVIII, sec. 27 (History of Rome)
Iwould likea mediumVodka dry Martiniwith a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka.
Ian Lancaster Fleming— 1958 Dr No, ch.14.
This is the end of the whaleroad and the whale Who spewed Nantucket bones on the thrashed swell And stirred the troubled waters to whirlpools To send the Pequod packing off to hell
— 1950 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', pt.4. The Pequod was the ship that sailed after Moby Dick in Melville's novel.
Somewhere beneath her hurried curse,A corpse lies bounding in a hearse;And friends and relatives disperse,And are not stirred.
Djuna Barnes— From Third Avenue On
The pure, the beautiful, the bright,That stirred our hearts in youth,The impulse to a wordless prayer,The dreams of love and truth,The longings after something lost,The spirit’s yearning cry,The strivings after better hopes,—These things can never die.
sarah doudney— Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
”And I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini — with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka.”
ian fleming— James Bond
Probably none of the Weagles gave five minutes' thought a year to theology or ecclesiology, except Ora, who occasionally stirred up a lot of interesting family irritation by announcing that he was going to become a Catholic, an Episcopalian, a Buddhist, or a Seventh Day Adventist.
sinclair lewis— Work of Art (1934) Ch. 4
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.
alexander maclaren— P. 220. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.
guity novin— p. 57 (Negin (1971))
Never yet was a springtime,Late though lingered the snow,That the sap stirred not at the whisperOf the southwind, sweet and low;Never yet was a springtimeWhen the buds forgot to blow.
margaret elizabeth sangster— Awakening.
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.
Robert Falcon Scott— Journal, 29 March 1912; final words, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol.1, ch.20
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.
sri aurobindo— 4 December 1893
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.
william baziotes— In: Fifteen Americans, Ehibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, 1952 p. 12
No dolphin came, no Nereid stirred; Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A favourite has no friend!
thomas gray— St. 6. (On the Death of a Favourite Cat (1747))
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.
robert heilbroner— Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
aldous huxley— Point Counter Point (1928)
Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.
china miéville— Part 3 “The Compass Factory”, chapter 20 (p. 241)
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
carl sagan— Cosmos (1980, p. 135)
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.
vitruvius— Introduction, Sec. 14
In academia, ...an art historian, on being stirred to tears by the tenderness and serenity he detects in a work by a fourteenth-century Florentine painter, may end up writing a monograph, as irreproachable as it is bloodless, on the history of paint manufacture in the age of Giotto. It seems easier to respond to our enthusiasms by trading in facts than by investigating the more naive question of how and why we have been moved.
Alain de Botton— The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009, pp. 27-29)
Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown, Have stirred up many zealous souls To fight against imaginary giants.
martin farquhar tupper— Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy, Of Tolerance.
I always liked the common Turkish people unless they were stirred to passion by militarists.
— George Edward White (1940). Adventuring with Anatolia College. Herald-Register. pp. p. 18.
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
henry george— Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Book II, Chapter 3.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
carl sagan— Cosmos (1980, p. 135)
Tell me I hate the bowl? Hate is a feeble word; I loathe, abhor my very soul and strong disgust is stirred Whene'er I see or hear or tell of the dark beverage of hell.
— Attributed to John B. Gough; denied by him.
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.
— Introduction, Sec. 14
God has stirred up enmity and hatred among Christians.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 5:14
