Quotes About Stir

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

If the first moment of the day fails to stir you, you are no longer fit to command.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Hitler doesn't stir up hatred without a purpose.

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

My fell of hairWould at a dismal treatise rouse and stirAs life were in 't. I have supp'd full with horrors.

When the surface of your soul begins to stir, I imagine you want to capture the sensation in writing.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Whitman was coming to think that he, above all, was the one chosen to agitate the country. He wrote in his 1856 notebook: "Agitation is the test of the goodness and solidness of all politics and laws and institutions.—If they cannot stand it, there is no genuine life in them, and shall die." He once declared, "I think agitation is the most important factor of all—the most deeply important. To stir, to question, to suspect, to examine, to denounce!

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.

If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That's the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. But you are definitely not in charge of the reaction—even when that reaction is flat-out bizarre.

No blandishments could make those cats stir if they weren't in the mood, and one does want whatever one is calling to come.

But all these, at one point or another, somewhere link on intimately with human life and human experience. They stir comprehensible, even if alarming, emotions. They tend on the whole to exalt.

I want to continuously instigate, whatever it may be.

My books have all generated controversy.

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

I think I was born for controversies.

I can move any crowd.

The perfect victim is the person who stirs you in a way that cannot be explained in words, whose effect on you has nothing to do with superficialities. He or she often has a quality that you yourself lack, and may even secretly envy

No, I did not understand. But I nodded silently. I was dissolved, I was infinitely small, I was a point... There is, after all, a logic of its own (today's logic) in this condition: a point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I was afraid to stir: what would I turn into?

Our world today similarly imagines itself the pinnacle of fairness, yet the same ugly emotions still stir within us, as they have forever. The game is the same.

Everyone has insecurities. When you show yourself in the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity. This is to be expected.