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Quotes About Stirred

The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love," Jonas whispered.
~ Lois Lowry
The days were a gray fog. Faces, familiar and unfamiliar, badgered him for directions, to which his reply was an invariable, laconic, "Suit yourself." Elena would not talk to him at all. He was stirred to fear she was finding comfort in Baz's arms. He watched her covertly, anxious. But she seemed not to be finding comfort anywhere. After
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
great doctor was all hot and bothered? It
~ Edie Claire
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
~ Livy
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady. Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
~ Scott Westerfeld
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~ H. G. Wells
The old Indian women dipped wooden spoons into stews and stirred and stirred. The stews made of random vegetables and commodity food, of failed dreams and predictable tears.
~ Sherman Alexie
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
~ E. B. White
Retired ... And he could hardly believe it that in his helmet and his bulky space suit he'd stirred that far dust. Iain Crichton Smith
~ John Foster
Something within Kit's breast stirred with a pain like trapped and beating wings.
~ Elizabeth Bear
for her dress when you saw it stirred you. And i rejoice. In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because i prayed this word: i want
~ Sappho
Local recruits made regular night trips past villages on the city's outskirts just to make guard dogs bark, which became such a nightly occurrence that few paid attention to it anymore—either that or the dogs would grow so accustomed they no longer stirred.
~ Mark Bowden
At some point the conscience of King George III, a decent, amiable, certainly not intolerant man, with good Catholic friends and compassionate towards unfortunate Catholic refugees, found itself stirred into a frenzy by the prospect of allowing these same Catholic friends and their children to participate in any way in the government of the country
~ Antonia Fraser
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
~ Baruch Spinoza
it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.
~ George Orwell
It seemed that a lot of what she was thinking about now wasn't exactly new: it had just settled at the bottom of her life like sediment while she got on with things. Now the sediment had been stirred by grief and change.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
He had known that memories would be stirred if he saw her again. He had known, surely, that somehow he would be hurt by them.
~ Mary Balogh
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
My memory stirred.
~ Harper Lee
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~ George Santayana
Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.
~ Alistair Begg
If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
~ Stephen Clarke