Stirring Quotes - Page 9

• Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Might, Sound

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• I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

  Norma McCorvey

  Pregnancy, Office, Dallas

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• Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Faith, Men, Blood

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• The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Country, Party, Political

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• But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.

  Mark Sutcliffe

  Running, New York, Cities

  Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com

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• Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

  Chris Hadfield

  Frustration, Two, Appreciate

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.144, Pan Macmillan

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• The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Passion, Balance, Path

  "The Reality Dysfunction". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, October 8, 2008.

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• By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
  The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
  and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Inquiry, Burning

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.

  Steven Brust

  Suffering, Events, Needs

  "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

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• Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Renewal, Site, Thirst

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• What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

  Alan Watts

  People, Needs, Movement

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• I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

  Nina Bawden

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Exercise, Imagination

  "Graeme Base adds music to his magical illustrations", www.cnn.com. September 1, 1999.

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• Listen to the long stillness:
  New life is stirring
  New dreams are on the wing
  New hopes are being readied:
  Humankind is fashioning a new heart
  Humankind is forging a new mind
  God is at work.
  This is the season of Promise

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Heart, Wings

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

  Dorothy Day

  Hands, Expectations, Silence

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• The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

  Bruno Walter

  Men, Creative, Historical

  Bruno Walter, James Austin Galston (1946). “Theme and Variations: An Autobiography”, New York, Knopf

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• Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

  Gary Hamel

  Justice, Leader, Soul

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• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Danger, Inches

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.101, Grove Press

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• There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored
  men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will
  take a great while to get it going again.

  Sojourner Truth

  Truth, Men, Rights

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• The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

  Jean Toomer

  Priorities, Faithful, Firsts

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  Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Dream, Real, Odds

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

  Martin Filler

  Years, Design, Style

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• The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, War, Victory

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• Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.

  Joseph Parker

  Jesus, Flower, Animal

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