Stirring Quotes
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"Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night," he had said. "You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses."
Sherwood Anderson— "Death"
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.
francis parkman— Pt. II, Ch. 2
The exploits of your leaders in many a historic field of battle; the progress of your Revolution; the rise and career of the great Ataturk, his revitalization of your nation by his great statesmanship, courage and foresight all these stirring events are well-known to the people of Pakistan.
muhammad ali jinnah— Reply to the speech made by the first Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan at the time of presenting Credentials to the Quaid-i-Azam (4 March 1948)
Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died; And so may you; for a light heart lives long.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 15.
I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, if wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, if frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun, and crocus fires are kindling one by one.
christina rossetti— The First Spring Day, Stanza 1.
And recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book IV
"Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night," he had said. "You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses."
Sherwood Anderson— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, (1919), "Death".
To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.
willa cather— Book II, Ch. 2
But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.
robin lane fox— p.60 (Alexander the Great)
He's gone around the country stirring up apathy.
david lange— Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 112.
— Referring to a national tour by Jim Bolger.
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
norman mailer— Harry Hubbard, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)
Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.
william morley punshon— p. 341. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring birds are on the wing And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— l. 1. (Work Without Hope (1825))
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— As quoted in Astract Expressionist Painting in America (1983) by W.C, Seitz, p. 88
A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.
thomas hood— Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
jack london— Chapter Twelve
I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.
malcolm lowry— Ch. XII (p. 346)
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.
Herman Melville— On the Slain Collegians, st. 1
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
john lancaster spalding— p. 274 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10
But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.
— Robin Lane Fox, "Alexander the Great", p.60
I am not for stirring a single pebble of the common law.
— Wilmot, L.C.J., Collins v. Blantern (1767), 2 Wils. 341.
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 3, line 146.
But a stirring thrills the air Like to sounds of joyance there, * That the rages
thomas hardy— Of the ages
Shall be cancelled, and deliverance offered from the darts that were,
Consciousness the Will informing, till it fashion all things fair.
— Thomas Hardy, Dynasts, Semichorus I of the Years.
Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.
— Joseph Joubert, in The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1983) as translated by Paul Auster
Not a mouse stirring.
— Francisco, scene i
