Quotes About Stirring

What we witnessed in the Watts area was the beginning of a stirring of a deprived people in a society who had been by-passed by the progress of the previous decade. I would minimize the racial significance and point to the fact that these were the rumblings of discontent from the "have nots" within the midst of an affluent society.

But even amid such stirring events, those two scourges of Burmese politics, factionalism and jealousy, began to cast their shadow.

I quickly learned that people in this mountainous region aren't early risers, preferring for the sun to take the chill off the landscape before doing much stirring around.

Some of these images intricately make me feel that I know these places. I see them like I've lived them...a stirring that is so real. A longing a sadness a connection that pulls fully and really

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Cold sun flashed in the red-and-blue Costco sign, stirring within me an intense need to purchase forty-eight of something.

You're fun to look at, decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. Fun? he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun, Elphaba said. The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

And she felt something she had not felt in years, something she had thought long, long dead in herself.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked. Redeeming social value, indeed.

He was struggling to keep his emotions in check—at least until he could get away from his father. After Sanja's death, he had felt hollow inside—empty…emotionless. And he had assumed he would never feel anything ever again. But after his last exchange with Lauren, something was stirring within him—something dark and sinister. Something too frightening to face. Then

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

The devilish qualities, not always limited to masks, were awake and stirring.

Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

Anyway, this time I caught her in the slow stirring of biscuits, her mind on other things, but anyhow, she was distracted enough, I was determined enough,this time I got just what I wanted. Permission to play at the Palace.

Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people appear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jacket out at elbows.

It took a little while before it sank in that, unlike what the stirring words of The Internationale told us, there is never any 'last fight left to face'; the struggle is forever — on constantly shifting battlefields against enemies who are endlessly reinforced from constantly receding horizons, and even from among the tired, disheartened deserters from our own ranks: