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I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect. — Kurt Busiek

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. — Heywood Broun

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself. — Thomas A Kempis

It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes. — Scott Turow

A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes. — James Joyce

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust. — Alan Dean Foster

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. — Nina Bawden

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

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

Stirring the winds of change is always an adventure. Where the adventure takes you is the journey that can determine who you are. — Faith Tilley Johnson

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

If I were a burning smolder, he was the poker, stirring
me into flames. — S. Jae-Jones

He felt that the world that had been shattered was once more stirring to life in his soul, in new beauty and on new and steadfast foundations. — Leo Tolstoy

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater. — Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

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

Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. — Laurie Perez

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

But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel something stirring inside - stop reading immediately. You might be one of us. And — Rick Riordan

He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir. — Patti Smith

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

Drawing attention to Gretchen's weight was the sort of behavior my mother referred to as 'stirring the turd,' and I did it a lot that summer. — David Sedaris

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

Crises are so valuable, in fact, that sometimes it's worth stirring up a sense of looming catastrophe rather than letting it die down. — Charles Duhigg

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

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

Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again? — Anthony Liccione

It was the night before Christmas...
And all through the house not a creature was stirring ...
Not even a ... bear ? — Rose Collins

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. — Kurt Vonnegut

For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. — William Shakespeare

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! — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

There is a crack in my soul, and I can hear it trembling, quivering, stirring deep inside me. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw

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

a dream is welded to a dreamer's heart and has the potential of stirring up the deepest part of a human heart. — Joe Ibojie

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. — Andre Gide

Cooking up ideas and crafting good plot into a unique, natural, stirring taste is like cooking patiently in a charcoal stove. — Angelica Hopes

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

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

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

I like bothering people and stirring things up. — Tim Daly

We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do. — Herman Melville

I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn't our century. — Elaine Dundy

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

Other dancers weave through our lives, sometimes stirring our deep soul's fires. — Jay Woodman

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

It's despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds. — Lara Biyuts

Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He is a longing I will never cure. — Tarryn Fisher

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

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

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

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

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others. — Colby Buzzell

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

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

His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together ... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.. — Lee Ann Womack

Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a while. — Gene Stratton-Porter

He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness. — Erik Tomblin

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. — Alfred Rosenberg

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

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. — Michael Pollan

Shanks moaned, stirring. "You broke my nuts"
So that was what my elbow had hit. "Sorry." My voice cracked. — Lili St. Crow

We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. — Tug McGraw

Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening — Basho Matsuo

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city. — Stefan Zweig

And he lay on the cold floor of the study watching the wind stirring the pages, mixing the written and unwritten, the end among them. — Louise Gluck

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

Geoff's arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S.
British-Craphole. — Katherine McIntyre

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

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

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

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. — Justine Dell

He ignites something inside of me, stirring up these little sparks in my gut that send jolts through my body, like a defibrillator to the heart. — J.M. Darhower

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good. — John Lancaster Spalding

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

Fall whispered through the window this morning, Hello, I'm here. — Eileen Granfors

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

Was this how it began? One silly woman with fire in her blood stirring the hearts of a legion of fools? — Hugh Howey

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf. — Charlaine Harris

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

I'll shoot you." "At your bluidy leisure." MacRieve's beast was already stirring. "Let's do this - — Kresley Cole

Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view. — Malak El Halabi

At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. — Charles Frazier

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. — Nina Easton

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? — H.G.Wells

The first stirring of any kind of desire in over a year comes courtesy of the devil in a bow tie.
Man, I was really fucked up. — T.M. Frazier

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. — Albert Einstein

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. — William Stafford

One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building — Tracy Kidder

How can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these thoughts in vain? — Vladimir Nabokov

Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked. — Julie Anne Long

Having a woman on the team is stirring things inside me that I never felt before while on the job. — Collette West

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