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Quotes About Movement

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
~ Charles Kettering
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.
~ Alfred the Great
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
~ Frank Herbert
The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
~ George Santayana
Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We all have our own rhythms to walk to.
~ Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth
Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.
~ Greg Bear, Blood Music
If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.
~ M.K. Bhutta
The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.
~ Schwaller de Lubicz
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
~ Madeleine Vionnet
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
~ John Keats
The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
~ Ninette de Valois
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
~ Marshall McLuhan
She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
~ Alice Sebold
cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, la salvación es la velocidad. Cuando
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.
~ A. H. Almaas
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness and agility, a terrific certainty of movement, not to mention a ready wit, a talent for observation and strained attention.
~ A. I. Kuprin
The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away
~ A.R. Ammons
Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.
~ A.R. Ammons
Flux has heightened us into knots of staid tension.
~ A.R. Ammons
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
~ Abigail Adams