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Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past -- W.S. Gilbert
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. -- Sun Tzu
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. -- Akhenaton
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins. -- Swami Vivekananda
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. -- Roger Ebert
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -- William Ellery Channing
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. -- Luc de Clapiers
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. -- Walter Pater
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. -- Terence McKenna
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. -- Grenville Kleiser
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse. -- Saint Ambrose
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. -- Kurt Huber
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. -- Gertrude Stein
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. -- William Ellery Channing
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue. -- Miguel Syjuco
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
You would rouse to anger a heart of stone. -- Sophocles
Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. -- C. S. Lewis
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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. -- Honore de Balzac
O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! -- William Shakespeare
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. -- Jean Racine
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. -- Kenneth Oppel
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them. -- Xun Zi
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them. -- Ron Suskind
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one. -- Robert E. Howard
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. -- Edward Abbey
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. -- Robert Breault
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us. -- Seneca the Younger
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge -- FÃ©lix J. Palma
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion. -- William Wilberforce
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man! -- Alexander Hamilton
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong. -- Christina Rossetti
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning. -- Abraham Verghese
It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity. -- John of Kronstadt
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires. -- Charles Churchill
. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice. -- Swami Vivekananda
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it? -- Franz Kafka
Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions... -- Joshua Reynolds
You would think the fury of aerial bombardmentwould rouse God to relent; the infinite spacesAre still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.History, even, does not know what is meant. -- Richard Eberhart
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies. -- Olympe de Gouges
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. -- C. S. Lewis
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be. -- Swami Vivekananda
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. -- J. K. Bharavi
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. -- Oswald Chambers
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed -- Bertrand Russell
Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him?" - Cat to Bones -- Jeaniene Frost
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. -- Agatha Christie

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