Top 284 Stirring Quotes & Sayings

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

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

I like bothering people and stirring things up.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

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

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

I like to be a peacekeeper, and I just don't believe in stirring up conflict.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

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

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 don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.

Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.

That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

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

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

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

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that befriends you to them. It engages you with them and then you can come in; they will remember that point.

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

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

My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

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

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

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

Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.