#stir

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 A. Baldwin

#daily work #dead #effort #enthusiasm #even

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

#different #different way #duty #i #i think

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#battle #brutality #deprivation #documentaries #endurance

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#stirs #up #vice #virtue #war

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. ↗

— Conrad Black

#foreign #go #i #stir #trying

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#jesse #jesse jackson #just #know #nest

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#after #contributions #difference #enormous #face

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are. ↗

— Jane Elliott

#country #fry #melting #melting pot #people

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. ↗

— James Broughton

#afraid #doing #enthusiasms #horizons #i

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. ↗

— George W. Bush

#fear #freedom #stirs #tyrants