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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. -- John Dryden
Passions are generally roused from great conflict. -- Livy
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness. -- Frederick Douglass
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. -- Jessamyn West
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time. -- Mason Cooley
I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. -- Joanna Baillie
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. -- Bertrand Russell
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused. -- James Oliver Curwood
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. -- Swami Vivekananda
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. -- Walter Scott
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. -- Sallust
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. -- Orison Swett Marden
The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping. -- Lucy Larcom
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. -- Wilkie Collins
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. -- Charles Inglis
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. -- Jane Austen
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. -- Margaret Fuller
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless. -- Elias Canetti
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. -- Mary Garden
Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused. -- Karl Marx
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. -- Frederick Douglass
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy. -- John Calvin
Let your gift of positive influence to be roused and spread like a wildfire from the east to the west and from the south to the north. All nations are waiting for it. -- Euginia Herlihy
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. -- Georges Duhamel
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator. -- Will Self
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A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield. -- David O. McKay

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