(78 quotes found)
“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”
William Shakespeare
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work.”
Daniel H. Burnham
“My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;And I myself see not the bottom of it.”
“Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.”
Italian Proverb
“Not a mouse stirring.”
“It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up”
Joseph Joubert
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
“Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.”
William Manchester
“There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.”
Oren Lyons Jr.