“Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness”
Samuel Johnson
“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”
Virginia Woolf
“The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
William Shakespeare
“And thus did We rouse them that they might question each other. A speaker among them said: How long have you tarried? They said: We have tarried for a day or a part of a day. (Others) said: Your Lord knows best how long you have tarried. Now send one of you with this silver (coin) of yours to the city, then let him see which of them has purest food, so let him bring you provision from it, and let him behave with gentleness, and by no means make your case known to any one: / For surely if they prevail against you they would stone you to death or force you back to their religion, and then you will never succeed.”
quran
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.”
William Ellery Channing
“It's a rousing piece, so we used that.”
Allan Steinfeld
“[She joined Sheehan's protest and believes it helped rouse enough public opposition to the war to make it easier for politicians to demand a new Iraq policy. They hope that fervor will wash over a Sept. 24 anti-war rally in Washington and rock the capitol.] It should be easier for them now, ... The voice is there.”
Celeste Zappala
