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Quotes About Stirred

the Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm.
~ Ishmael Reed
Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.
~ Dallas Willard
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Charles stirred
~ Louise Penny
It was not a wave but a smooth rolling swell that seemed to come up from the deeps, as if something vast down there had stirred itself.
~ John Banville
Men are really strange creatures when their emotions get stirred up.
~ Diana Palmer
I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested – ominously – a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.
~ Donna Tartt
I was not deeply stirred by the Troubles, I had no allegiance
~ John Gregory Dunne
The evening had been pleasant, but I felt roiled and muddy, my mind like river-silt stirred up from its beds.
~ Madeline Miller
When the fair gold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers pulling a frog mouth at her.
~ John Steinbeck
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
The dragon within my heart stirred, shifting her wings, as if remembering they could be used to fly.
~ Marie Brennan
I stirred my tea angrily.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Put in the post office at the corner of Signal Street and Ojai Avenue in Ojai." In the backseat, Scatty stirred. "Oh, not Ojai. Please tell me we're not going there.
~ Michael Scott
Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and undid the strap of her knife sheath, putting it and the knife on the bedside table. "Beautiful as this sheath is," he said, touching the leather, "I much prefer the one which holds my blade.
~ Nalini Singh
Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity. The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up—all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world. Yet Jesus Christ never encourages the idea of retirement—He says, "Go and tell My brethren . . ." (Matthew 28:10).
~ Oswald Chambers
The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up—all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world.
~ Oswald Chambers
He poured the two stainless travel mugs full of the steeped tea and shook brown sugar into his and stirred it with a twig and sat on his log and couldn't relax.
~ Peter Heller
So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
~ Ruth 1:19
Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
~ 2 Samuel 24:1
Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
~ 2 Chronicles 21:16
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
~ Job 17:8
This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
~ Jeremiah 6:22
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.
~ Mark 15:11