Famous quotes containing the word roused:
“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
“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 (1810–1850)
“Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one’s mediocrity at the same time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)