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Quotes About Stir

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Something he learned long ago came to mind. Stir a person up and they could be made to think. Add in anger and they'll screw up, sure as hell.
~ Steve Berry
The heart that disdains all motion occasionally is convulsed by a jolt.
~ Eugenio Montale
I'm supposed to incite the crowd.
~ John Layfield
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
~ Gustave Flaubert
To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.
~ Dan Abrams
In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
~ Teresa of Avila
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
~ Bertrand Russell
Satan will try to stir up what our faithful Refiner wants to skim off.
~ Beth Moore
No coffee worth drinking requires cream.
~ Joy Jordan-Lake
People were mulling around, skittering about like moths on a lightbulb. Then
~ Faye Kellerman
A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
~ Bolivian Proverb
Let's give them something to talk about.
~ Bonnie Raitt
near them grow dreamlike fairy-tale flowers whose leaves stir in the moonlight.
~ Heinrich Heine
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
~ John Ridley
Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures.
~ Blaise Pascal
Seventy years ago they made a bit of a stir at the Echmen court when a political dissident sought refuge with them and the Echmen demanded his extradition. What they got was the dissident's head, perfectly preserved in a jar of wild honey. I happen to like honey, but not as much as that.
~ K.J. Parker
Anything with Tito Ortiz's name on it will always involve a bit of controversy.
~ Tito Ortiz
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
~ Darin Strauss
If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
~ Stephen Clarke
There is buzz among the populace.
~ Michelle Knudsen
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
~ Carl Sagan
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
~ Bernard de Mandeville