Top 165 Aroused Quotes & Sayings

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused.

It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.

We are gonna have tons and tons of opportunities to meet gorgeous ladies that get so aroused by the thought of marriage that they'll throw their inhibitions to the wind.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

I was aroused for 24 hours straight!

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

My observance as a practicing Muslim in the NBA is somewhat uncommon. Since joining the league in 2011, my dedication to my faith has aroused the curiosity of teammates, coaches, trainers and fans.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I don't really have a process. I just get agitated or aroused by an idea in the world, and then I want to give my rebuttal.

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.