Stirring Quotes - Page 5

• Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Political, Acting, Warfare

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Rose, Soup

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• Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Ambition, Miracle

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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 judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

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

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• Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. “Tick, tock.” “Tick, tock,” I agree softly. “It’s time for bed. Tick, tock. Go to sleep.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Sleep, Bed

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.477, Scholastic UK

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• As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Air, Dragons

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.816, Bantam

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• That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Stars, Children, Firefly

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.176, Feiwel & Friends

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• We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Tea

  Christopher Isherwood (2008). “The Berlin Stories”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.

  Antonio Machado

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

  Denis Diderot

  Design, Religion, Use

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

  Ainsley Harriott

  Mother, Brother, Teenager

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.

  Aisha Hinds

  Memories, Character, Reflection

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

  Marcella Hazan

  Smell, Cooking, Sound

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• Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Cutting, Emotional

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• A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dwarves, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320

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• This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Female, Noble

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.145

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• There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Secret, World

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “Memoir. The second brother. Torrismond. Dramatic scenes and fragments. Miscellaneous poems. Poetic fragments. Appendix. Notes”, p.121

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• Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fire, Example

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.347

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• I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Intelligence, Politics, Fool

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.54

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• It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Mean, Interesting

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• What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Voice, Giving

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, Dawson Brothers

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Life, Cups, Bitter

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• Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

  Hedda Hopper

  Movie, Eye, Heart

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “The Whole Truth and Nothing But”, p.266, Graymalkin Media

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