Bestir Quotes

#1. His life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turbulence of the times makes some people feel a need to bestir themselves, but in the opposite direction, backwards rather than forwards;

Italo Calvino

#2. If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Frances Wright

#3. I am still drunk that you were here,
and you were mine.
And once again I stretch my hand out
for that wine;

As your drunk eyes could not bestir
themselves, I too
Can't move; as you love wine, I love
the wine that's you;

Jahan Malek Khatun

#4. Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little ones, the asword of justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit you even to your utter destruction.

The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

#5. I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Fake it, I scream at myself inside my head. You must remember how. Let's get this over with or you'll be here all night. Bestir yourself. Move your flesh around, breathe audibly. It's the least you can do.

Margaret Atwood

#7. The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.

Emil Cioran

#8. When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

Charles Grandison Finney

#9. In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Novalis

#10. Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.

Adam Nevill

#11. We are playing with desires that disappear.

Doug Rice

#12. Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one's self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.

Emily Thorne

#13. Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

T. S. Eliot

#14. Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.

Stephen Covey

#15. The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

John Lasseter

#16. Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.

Roberto Bolano