Stirring Quotations

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

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

I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

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

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

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

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

What makes it different is that it's not only a legal issue but it's been made a political issue. That makes the athlete much more vulnerable. These guys will keep stirring the pot and stirring the pot.

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

She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.

Mr. Brokaw's successive accomplishments in broadcast journalism over the last 40 years, along with his more recent achievements in documentary reporting and authorship, have enlightened audiences, providing them with a unique perspective on our nation and its past, and stirring within them a passion about the historical events that have shaped our present day, ... Mr. Brokaw's work dovetails with the Foundation's mission - to educate, enrich, and inspire a deeper appreciation of our country's heritage through the collected evidence of its history. We greatly appreciate The Boeing Company's generous support of this tribute celebration.

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today-in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped-always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!

If the symbolic industry of the United States collapses, it may adversely affect Japan-U.S. relations by stirring up nationalist sentiment there.

He just gets us all going. When you see him out there and he's stirring things up, it gets you wanting to do the same thing. He's one of our leaders out there.

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up

I'm sick and tired of you people stirring things up against George W. Bush the minute he does something you don't completely agree with, when he has just given you 20 things you do agree with.

Most of all it's just being physical, checking guys. A lot of guys get frustrated by that. So you're stirring it up a bit and you get a certain label.

Microsoft is in there, stirring up debate. The whole thing is more of a mess than it has to be.

This really is no more than Arab-phobia. For these politicians, the national interest of the United States is synonymous with their next election. They're not thinking this is a real threat. It's an election year, it's an Arab country, and there's a post-9/11 insecurity they can exploit. It's a lethal brew, and they're stirring it for all it's worth.

First and foremost it is the company, it's these executives that put these numbers together, it's not the auditors. So the people who are actually in the kitchen, cooking the books, stirring the stew, so to speak, are these executives, and there is no excuse for what happened.

We had the master of the manipulators, playing for Scotty (Bowman) . We've seen all the tricks before. The game is going to be played on the ice. Not talking or stirring things up.

They accused me of stirring up animosity. You know I write about the 16th century! I write about tribes that were fighting against each other in the 16th century. And they take all of that and they project it onto the present day.

The story of Jim Braddock continues to be so incredibly stirring because it is a tale that reminds us of just how remarkable human endurance and the power of love can be,

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

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

The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.

As we were still in the process of assessing Katrina's impact on the economy, Hurricane Rita appears, stirring new worries of oil supply shortage in the United States.

It never hurts to check with your agent to see if there's anything new that's stirring around that you're not aware of.

I'm not sure that in this case he brings a whole lot to the party. The businesses are not mismanaged. There's not an awful lot to fix. We are very happy to see Icahn stirring the pot, but the way things are going and the way this company is being managed, it's a day late and a dollar short. The things that are being done to fix the stock have already been done. I don't think anybody can have any qualms, as a shareholder, with Dick Parsons.

I like the idea of stirring up interest in the stockholders, ... They don't know anything. They have the crumbs and the company is taking the pie.

In recent decades I believe there have been no more stirring or inspiring words to encourage those of us who believe in protecting unborn life than these.

In 25 years in the business, I've never experienced anything more stirring than watching Dan Jansen win his gold medal. It's still the only time I've ever cried in a press box.

I think my husband Bruce Paltrow is up there, stirring this up for me, ... He's saying, 'Get the old gal to work.'

I think my husband, Bruce Paltrow, is up there, stirring this up for me,

He's wonderful at stirring up an argument and slinging around rhetoric. ... For some of these people, it seems to be a theological issue. For us, it's an analytic issue.

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

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

If I had to give a grade to Howard Stringer, I'd give him a C-plus. He talks a lot about restructuring in cost reduction. He doesn't really talk about stirring growth.

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

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

All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.

The geopolitical situation regarding crude oil is stirring a tremendous amount of buying interest.

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

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

Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.