#arouse

Music, not sex, got me aroused. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#got #me #music #sex

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

#aroused #carrying #definite #enthusiasm #first

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#arouse #going #hell #hell is #know

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#arouse #audience #cannot #feel #his

Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#erotic #erotic-literature #erotica #excite #form-of-art

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. ↗

— Theodore White

#beast #best #him #his #kitchen

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

#churchill #civilisation #everything #except #fashion

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#averted #doom #flowing #nation #only

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#arouse #being #ecstasy #envy #forgiven

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular