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Stirring Quotes

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Eric Hoffer
Experience, Stirring, Foreboding
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

Christopher Isherwood
Tea, Stirring
Christopher Isherwood (2008). “The Berlin Stories”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Secret, World, Stirring
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “Memoir. The second brother. Torrismond. Dramatic scenes and fragments. Miscellaneous poems. Poetic fragments. Appendix. Notes”, p.121

Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.

Tony Blair
Ends, Stirring, Happens
Source: www.pbs.org

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

Saadi
Mingling, Mischief, Stirring

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Thomas a Kempis
Stirring

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

Lee Atwater
Pot, Come Up, Stirring

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Paul Tillich
Song, Tongue, Stirring

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

Jane Goodall
Blood, Stirring, Felt
Jane Goodall (2000). “Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters : the Early Years”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.

J. M. Coetzee
Loss, Stirring, Lament

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Henry Ward Beecher
Animal, Men, Stirring
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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