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Quotes About Movement

Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement of God's spirit.
~ Diana Butler Bass
In Yuri's early years of activism, [Mae] Mallory served as an important political mentor. Not only did Mallory have a visible leadership role, usually reserved for men, she also, remarked Yuri, 'taught me how to be a good Movement person. She was always on time, responsible & reliable, accurate in giving out information, and she wanted other people to be the same.
~ Diane C. Fujino
Activists from all over the world--the known & the unknown--would find their way to the Kochiyamas' Fri & Sat night open houses. 'People were everywhere, eating, talking, laughing, spilling out into the hallway [outside their apt]. People were even int he bathroom. You couldn't close the front door bc there were so many people inside,' recalled Herman Ferguson. The Kochiyamas' apt also became a central meeting place for the Movement.
~ Diane C. Fujino
strides, Shelly grabbed the ball
~ Diane Chamberlain
An added paradox in the story of Hooker's reputation is that no one has ever wanted to adopt everything which he propounded; everyone has made choices to suit themselves. There is no Hookerian Movement.
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch
Everything goes by — men, the seasons, the clouds, and there is no use clinging to the stones, no use fighting it out on some rock in midstream; the tired fingers open, the arms fall back inertly and you are still dragged into the river, the river which seems to flow so slowly yet never stops.
~ Dino Buzzati
dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress
~ Dionne Brand
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
~ Dita Von Teese
Wir setzen an dieser Stelle über den Fluss—
~ Djuna Barnes
I put my hand on the poor bitch of a cow and her hide was running water under my hand, like water tumbling down from Lahore, jerking against my hand as if she wanted to go, standing still in one spot; and I thought, there are directions and speeds that no one has calculated, for believe it or not that cow had gone somewhere very fast that we didn't know of, and yet was still standing there.
~ Djuna Barnes
Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.
~ Doménico Cieri Estrada
Il faut sautiller dans l'ascenseur pour qu'il consente à démarrer.
~ Dominique Fernandez
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
~ Don Bluth
The future belongs to crowds.
~ Don DeLillo
Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had come to agree completely with the southern view of the Constitution as a proslavery document.5°
~ Don E. Fehrenbacher
Spring-tension hips were thrust high and forward and moving rhythmically for an even more disturbing effect.
~ Don Pendleton
Whenever the long poles supporting their homes began to rot, they simply moved to a new location and built new homes.
~ Don Richardson
Every second act, Reggie knows, is followed by a third.
~ Don Winslow
The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle
~ Donald E. Westlake
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
It's just life, so keep dancing through.
~ Stephen Schwartz
Remember, light and shadow never stand still.
~ Benjamin West
Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
~ Jackie French, Lady Dance
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks