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Quotes About Movement

Quien no se mueve no siente sus cadenas
~ Rosa Luxemburgo
He rode into Haarlem the following afternoon with
~ Rosalind Laker
Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.
~ Louise Erdrich
Walking is a feat of controlled falling. Like life, I guess.
~ Louise Erdrich
They were graceful. It looked like they were pollinating flowers
~ Louise Erdrich
One of these days you'll burst. So be it! One of these days , when the movement inside catches up with the movement outside, when your thoughts scatter far and wide and rise up at last to play with the stars.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Then, quite unexpectedly, she embraced Barbara for a long time. Barbara could feel the movement of the child inside her belly.
~ Lucy Jago
For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Waltzing is not the same thing as dancing, since the rhumba is also a dance but it is not a waltz. It therefore follows that one can waltz without dancing the waltz.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.
~ Lynn Schooler
Even the suggestion of swimming be stirring. Watch a swimmer pass a building with a pool: the whiff of chlorine produces a wistful smile. Sit with swimmers when a TV commercial shows someone in the water: they actually stop and watch.
~ Lynn Sherr
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If there is road in front of me, I will follow it. I don't mind where it goes, as long as it takes me forward.
~ Ma Jian
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. I want to think on my feet, live on the run.
~ Ma Jian
a quadrilha francesa é a negação da dança, como o vestuário moderno é a negação da graça, e ambos são filhos deste século, que é a negação de tudo.
~ Machado de Assis
O major, porém, continuava a andar com aquele passo rápido dos majores que andam depressa.
~ Machado de Assis
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean beyond this rising and falling of the breakers, lying on the moving water, pulsing gently with the swells, and feeling the gentle, inexorable tug of the moon.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place. Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through stars.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You waste your energy going up and down instead of going forward.' She continued to walk calmly beside Felix.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Things will always be desperate while old people don't make any move to change them,' Clio said.
~ Maeve Binchy