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Quotes About Roused

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.
~ Karl Marx
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
~ Frederick Douglass
That's why males defend, Lady Surreal. Because you females are deadlier when you're roused—and you're merciless when you're riding the killing edge
~ Anne Bishop
In rambling drunken confession, the father gave forth his guilt as though it belonged to anyone who roused.
~ Anne Rice
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna's youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.
~ Sinclair Lewis
But the terrible truth is that the group of sleeping lions that the United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs.
~ George Crile
United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs.
~ George Crile
Anders turns and looks at him. He wants to hear Coyle's cousin repeat what he's just said, but he knows better than to ask. The others will think he's being a jerk, ragging the kid for his grammar. But that isn't it, not at all - it's that Anders is strangely roused, elated, by those final two words, their pure unexpectedness and their music. He takes the field in a trance, repeating them to himself.
~ Tobias Wolff
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
~ James Oliver Curwood
The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.
~ D. H. Lawrence
One after another those words travelled over my memory, repeating themselves again and again with a wearisome, mechanical reiteration. I was roused from what felt like a trance of many hours--from what was really, no doubt, the pause of a few moments only--by a voice calling to me.
~ Wilkie Collins
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
~ Charles Inglis
Charles stirred
~ Louise Penny