#roused

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#amiable #dark #exerted #laid #malevolent

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#behind #capable #citizens #favor #federalism

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. ↗

— John Dryden

#foreign #his #lash #lion #now

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. ↗

— Mary Garden

#anything #creativity #else #emotion #get

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#aroused #compromise #done #i #interest

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#aroused #astonish #deep #dreamed #dwell

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#doing #faculties #found #nature #place

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#attracts #being #i #i do #live

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused. ↗

— Michael Arad

#came #come #day #desire #emotions