#rouse

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated. ↗

— James Buchan

#humiliation #like #losing #real #repeated

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise. ↗

— Vince Cable

#assets #banks #breathing #british #business

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#authenticity #desire #hard #hard times #instinctive

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#finds #her #justifies #last #looks

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#consciousness #into #must #own #people

Music, not sex, got me aroused. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#got #me #music #sex

I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy. ↗

— Jay Kay

#bottom #cannot #crazy #cut #does

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#cover #enough #essentials #good #interest

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#aroused #carrying #definite #enthusiasm #first

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#american people #any #arouse #citizen #conscience