Top 100 Stir Up Quotes
#1. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#2. I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
Alexandra Wentworth
#3. All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without my permission, or at least without my understanding how long they would live and how vicious they would be.
Alice Munro
#4. I don't want to stir up a can of worms.
Alan Brazil
#5. It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Criss Jami
#6. When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.
Joel Osteen
#7. With her through an angel that someone nearby could relate. The two women had one important predicament in common - questionable pregnancies, sure to stir up some talk. Elizabeth hadn't been out of the house in months. It
Beth Moore
#8. I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
Zooey Deschanel
#9. We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#10. The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
Antonin Artaud
#11. You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. Your dreams will stir up the dreams of others and your gift of influence will influence others. You just have to keep dreaming and continue to do the things you were born to do.
Euginia Herlihy
#13. It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
Sit close and draw the table nigher;
Be merry and drink wine that is old,
A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.
John Fletcher
#15. You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
Kenneth Blackwell
#16. The media used to investigate and uncover things. Now they simply collect 'he said,' 'she said' statements and stir up trouble. Their main activity is influence peddling, special interests, sensationalism, not fact.
Peter Arthur
#17. All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.
Shakti Gawain
#18. Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.
Edna O'Brien
#19. every time you think you can have a normal life, something will stir up your past. So either you put a fucking bullet in your skull or figure out a way to make your remaining life mean something.
Ben Lieberman
#21. When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.
Matthew Henry
#22. If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That's the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. But you are definitely not in charge of the reaction - even when that reaction is flat-out bizarre.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
Samuel Johnson
#24. Keep in mind the devil will use anything he can to divide, confuse, and stir up trouble. We are to learn to recognize his tricks.
Amanda Penland
#25. For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.
Isaac Newton
#26. It's so important for you to get around people who will stir up those seeds of greatness. Don't surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people ... Did I leave out anything?
Joel Osteen
#27. The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.
Paul Mellon
#28. Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.
Brigham Young
#29. I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective.
George W. Bush
#30. I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.
Stephen F Olford
#31. I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
Conrad Black
#32. The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
John Stuart Mill
#33. The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.
Leonard Ravenhill
#34. At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that.
William Devane
#35. Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?
Amy Carmichael
#36. You will stir up the hornets.
[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
Plautus
#37. The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
Henry Reed
#38. We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
Matthew Henry
#39. If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
Dale Carnegie
#40. Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J.C. Ryle
#41. not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
Anonymous
#42. I see no need in taking part in forced adolescent social rituals that would do nothing but stir up emotions of dread for all involved.
Jennifer Mathieu
#43. In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
Archibald Alexander
#44. People like to stir up the fashion vs. costume world, and I think what they mean by 'too costumey' is that it's too much, or not real enough for everyday wear. You couldn't say that about John Galliano's shows, right? I mean, they're awesome, and they're total costume.
Colleen Atwood
#45. Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
Maria Montessori
#46. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
Eric Hoffer
#47. Too many of you are doing great stuff in small ponds, it's time for a stir-up, break limits, break boundaries, breakthrough. Go, make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#48. Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs ... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
Edwin A. Abbott
#49. Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.
Andrew Murray
#50. Hitler doesn't stir up hatred without a purpose.
Ken Follett
#51. What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.
Matt Taibbi
#52. It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#53. Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#54. We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
Federica Montseny
#55. There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of oratory is nurtured by the applause of the mob in all free communities; but this is especially true of Athens, where eloquence has the greatest influence.
Livy
#56. My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
Eleanor Of Aquitaine
#57. I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.
Mary Trainor-Brigham
#59. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.
Joseph Addison
#61. I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.
Michael Trucco
#62. As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
Plutarch
#63. This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
Maria Montessori
#64. Don't let it be latent. Put it to use. Stir up the things God put into you to use. Don't let it die inside you.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#65. You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
Aristophanes
#66. If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]
Donna Thorland
#67. My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.
Christopher Heyerdahl
#68. If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up.
James Alexander Thom
#69. I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.
Christopher Rice
#70. I learned, whatever you hung from my earlobes or out on my back, I was insoluble, like same in water. Stir me up, I always rest on the bottom
Janet Fitch
#71. Its a beautiful day.I think I'll skip my meds and stir things up a bit_Bumper Sticker
Darynda Jones
#72. Those who get their living by their daily labor ... have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
Bernard De Mandeville
#73. Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
Banana Yoshimoto
#74. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
Joseph Conrad
#75. Sometimes, take a moment and ponder; yes, take a moment and stir your life just as you stir that delicious stew! Taste it to know how delicious or the otherwise it is! And if there be a need for a change, be swift and tactical.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#76. I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Rupert Murdoch
#77. I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.
Debi Mazar
#78. The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Tom Robbins
#79. Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.
Koichi Tohei
#80. Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Sallust
#81. For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm not interested. But if it's done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I'm on board.
David Livermore
#82. I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.
Jessica Raine
#83. We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.
Munia Khan
#84. In the old days, trouble was kept in the family, which is still the best place for it, not that there's ever a best place for trouble. Why stir everything up again after that many years, with all concerned tucked, like tired children, so neatly into their graves?
Margaret Atwood
#85. I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.
Marilyn Manson
#86. I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#87. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
Neville Cardus
#88. You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into mischief, to stir everything up and see if it won't boil over and if God won't come down and grab you by the hair. Well, there is no God. You might as well be God.
Anne Rice
#89. What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.
Julius Sumner Miller
#90. Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.
William Wordsworth
#91. With Daisy, Sorreltail, and Ferncloud all busily licking, the kits soon started to stir, letting out faint, whimpering cries. But Daisy didn't look up until all three revived enough to nuzzle into her belly and start suckling.
Erin Hunter
#92. According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
John Gerard
#93. Total transparency risks country's stability.
Toba Beta
#94. Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything.
Carrie Underwood
#95. If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
R.A. Torrey
#96. I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?
To the end of turning to profit the talents which God has committed to your keeping; and of which he will surely one day demand a strict account.
Charlotte Bronte
#97. 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.
Leon Redbone
#98. Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
Joseph Conrad
#99. I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.
Thomas Sadoski
#100. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.
Emily March
