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Quotes About Movement

And I began to dance too.
~ Ann M. Martin
Idea and image juxtapositioned, spinning between myth and rationality, the odd years spent at a right angle; if I over-reach, can I be sure of reclaiming a formula outside habitual movement? How easy it would be to finally slide over, allowing the rest to absolve itself. But remember society owes you nothing, therefore, doing yourself in isn't the answer, no reward for the resentment, and how would I know if it had proved freedom?
~ Ann Quin
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
~ Samuel Johnson
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Your physical action increases your attraction.Exercise, stretch, move, and let go. Every time you move your body with the intention to move out your old, unhealthy feelings and thoughts, you make a dynamic shift in your frequencies.
~ Sandra Anne Taylor
sitting at a computer for long
~ Sandra Brown
have cost precious time. He'd kept moving. It was insufferably hot and sultry. Sweat had
~ Sandra Brown
was on its way.
~ Sara Foster
It's raining outside, and the rush of water is a million murmuring voices, cajoling, soothing, warning, impatient. Get moving, they say.
~ Sara Foster
The initial phase of this revolt was the Farmers' Alliance movement, born on the Texas frontier.
~ Sarah Chayes
talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
~ Sarah Dessen
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.
~ Sarah Dessen
Meanwhile, Morris settled into his seat with his signature slouch, neither knowing nor caring where I was taking him. Like destinations, in general, were vastly overrated. And maybe they were. As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.
~ Sarah Dessen
As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.
~ Sarah Dessen
Hearing this, I had that feeling again, like the conversation was a pack of wild horses pounding out ahead of me, leaving nothing but dust behind. Trifecta?
~ Sarah Dessen
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.
~ Sarah Manguso
My lips are chapped from the winds of change.
~ Sarah Vowell
Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, you just need to walk without creaking.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
~ Saul Alinsky
The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
~ Saul Bellow
You must take your chance on what you are. And you can't sit still. I know this double poser, that if you make a move you may lose but if you sit still you will decay. But what will you lose? You will not invent better than God or nature or turn yourself into the man who lacks no gift or development before you make the move. This is not given to us.
~ Saul Bellow
their medals and shoes played percussion
~ Scott Adams
You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe