The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.
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.
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. . . Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
There is some secret stirring in the world, A thought that seeks impatiently its word.
Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.
There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
