Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. — Edward Abbey
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. — Sojourner Truth
Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. — Tupac Shakur
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. — Robert Peel
I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it. — Septima Poinsette Clark
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. — Eugene V. Debs
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. — Catherine Booth
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.' — Heraclitus
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it. — Ida Tarbell
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato
Be the trouble you want to see in the world. — Joey Comeau
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally. — William Booth
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. — Woodrow Wilson
All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level. — Tom Coburn
Short Stirring Things Up Quotes
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. — Mary Baker Eddy
Those who are quiet will always cause riots. — Dr. Dre
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege. — Lucretia Mott
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron. — Barbara Mikulski
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. — Steve Lacy
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. — Clint Eastwood
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. — Margaret Heffernan
It is your restlessness that causes chaos. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond
Stirring Things Up Image Quotes
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Stirring Quotes
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. — Ibn Arabi
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country. — Molly Ivins
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool. — Sojourner Truth
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. — Charles Spurgeon
Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. — Sonia Sotomayor
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. — Robert Wyland
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. — James Baldwin
Do Your Own Thing Quotes
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you. And stay. — Will Smith
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own — Albert Schweitzer
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. — Mary Oliver
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay. — Will Smith
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. — Oprah Winfrey
You have to do hard things to create your own meaning in life. — Naval Ravikant
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. — C. S. Lewis
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. — Louis C. K.
Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way. — Joel Osteen
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. — RuPaul
Do Your Thing Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton. — CM Punk
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart. — ASAP Rocky
Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things — Miyamoto Musashi
I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength. — Melanie Martinez
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. — Will Smith
Things To Do Quotes
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. — Hippocrates
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. — Alexander The Great
Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. — Miyamoto Musashi
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. — Merle Haggard
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
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
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things. — Tullian Tchividjian
We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. — Tug McGraw
I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears. — Demi Moore
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
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together. — Parker Stevenson
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. — Gary Ackerman
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. — John Stuart Mill
There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real. — Eugene J. Martin
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. — Sallust
I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea. — George Harrison
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. — Tom Robbins
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. — William Joyce
I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds. — Bradford Cox
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
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
People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there. — William A. Rusher
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that. — Pattiann Rogers
I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up. — Bill Murray
What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do. — Madonna Ciccone
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
I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people. — Thomas Sadoski
Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change. — Jack Johnson
I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment. — Gretchen Rubin
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are. — Markus Zusak
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
Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it. — Sayings
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
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. — Nina Bawden
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. — Bernard of Clairvaux
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs. — Philip Larkin
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful. — Richard Branson
Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs. — William Shakespeare
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers. — Shannon Hale
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