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stirrings

«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
«I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream»
«Let the bucket of memory down into the well,bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No onestirring, no plans. Just being there.»
«There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath»
«It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up»
«April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.»
«It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality»
«Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.»
Author: Italian Proverb | Keywords: pot, spoon, stirring, stirrings
«They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.»
«Not a mouse stirring.»