Quotes About Stir

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.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that.

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Nothing happens until something moves.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

was—there was already a lot of activity

Remember, he hasn't much imagination. Or, rather, it's been frozen for a long while and hasn't had time to thaw.

The love of God should electrify us, push us to hunger, and stir a fiery passion in our bones that cannot be quenched. Consistent lack of emotion in our spiritual walk can often be defined in one simple word: complacency.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.