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Music, not sex, got me aroused. -- Marvin Gaye
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. -- Alice Hamilton
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. -- Denis Diderot
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. -- Theodore White
I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know. -- Dave Navarro
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us. -- Richard Francis Burton
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
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. -- Stephen Hawking
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
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
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. -- Adam Hochschild
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. -- George Stigler
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. -- Al Gore
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
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech. -- Richard Griffiths
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
There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands. -- Jose Rizal
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
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
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. -- Milton Avery
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. -- Bernie Siegel
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow. -- Stephen Hawking
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. -- Noam Chomsky
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change. -- Wadah Khanfar
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. -- Ben Carson
I was aroused for 24 hours straight! -- Courtney Stodden
The power of an aroused public is unbeatable. -- Helen Caldicott
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it. -- Amelia Barr
Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings. -- Mason Cooley
It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change. -- Sheila Ballantyne
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform. -- Coretta Scott King
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. -- David O. McKay
Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. -- Steve Allen
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. -- Confucius
But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them. -- Phyllis A. Whitney
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent. -- Li Yizhong
To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. -- John F. Kennedy
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned. -- Slug
I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex. -- Louis Begley
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy]. -- Edward Victor Appleton
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. -- Nelson Mandela
To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. -- David Livingstone
Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused. -- Drew Pinsky
Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half. -- David Brooks
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. -- Alain de Botton
Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view. -- Jim Carrey
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. -- Max Beerbohm
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. -- Anthony Daniels
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator. -- Francis Bacon
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. -- Dale Carnegie
No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide. -- Bertrand Russell
The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines. -- Van Jones
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. -- Karl Kraus
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist. -- Paul Valery
Forcing your love on someone who doesn't love you is an emotional rape, because your victim's heart was not aroused, you jumped into it without foreplay. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate. -- Kurt Tucholsky
Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat. -- Suzy Kassem
Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet! -- Frank Herbert
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good. -- Pablo Picasso
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant. -- Lev S. Vygotsky
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores -- Matsuo Basho
I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners. -- Volkmar Sigusch
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what emotions are aroused and what character of music. -- Edgar Cayce
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are gonna have tons and tons of opportunities to meet gorgeous ladies that get so aroused by the thought of marriage that they'll throw their inhibitions to the wind. -- Vince Vaughn
The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace -- Jim Andrews
You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making! -- Georgette Heyer
the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. -- Leo Tolstoy
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life. -- Fiona Thrust
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain. -- Napoleon Hill
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream. -- Gautama Buddha
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy. -- John Cowper Powys
Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy. -- Gerald W. Johnson
Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would've been arousing if not for all the screaming." "Ian," Bones drew out warningly. He grinned. "You're right. I was aroused anyway. -- Jeaniene Frost
... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart. -- Marcel Proust
I'm the type of person that likes to give people a hard time, and I enjoy doing little pranks. If I see someone getting a little aroused I have to keep pushing that button. -- The Miz
It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it. -- Elie Metchnikoff
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ. -- Bernard of Clairvaux

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