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Quotes About Movement

Action has magic, grace, and power in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I want to go about like the light-footed goats.
~ Johanna Spyri
Spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move... Mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve
~ John Archibald Wheeler
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.
~ John Armstrong
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving, Our days put on such reticence These accents seem their own defense.
~ John Ashbery
In the imaginative movement which prompts the impulse to draw repeats implicitly the same pattern...there is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and a au-revoir! Alternately and at infinitum.
~ John Berger
Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.
~ John Boozman
Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
~ John Bruton
Lumpini Park at night: love at its cheapest, but the incidence of HIV is said to be over 60 per cent. In the darkness: furtive movement on benches and on the grass, muted moans and whispers, rustlings of large animals in heat, the intensity of the atomic fusion of sec and death (highly addictive, they say).
~ John Burdett
While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."4
~ John Bytheway
Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.
~ John Collier
There's always someplace to go, even if it's only someplace else.
~ John Connolly
The Tale was behind them. And it was to there they journeyed. One step would take them there; they were there already
~ John Crowley
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.
~ John Cusack
From the very beginning of the movement in the sixteenth century, Anabaptists shared a deep suspicion of the so-called Schriftgelehrten - the university-trained scholars who, they claimed artfully dodged the clear and simple teachings of Jesus by appealing to complex arguments and carefully crafted statements of doctrine. In other words, they confused theological discussions with lived faith.
~ John D. Roth
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.
~ John Denver and Joe Henry
We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which is disconnected from any thought about standing. We must start to do another thing which on one side inhibits our falling into the customary bad position and on the other side is the beginning of a series of acts which may lead into the correct posture.[2] The hard-drinker
~ John Dewey
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an 'ism becomes so involved in reaction against other 'isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
~ John Dewey
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
~ John Dryden
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Always do whatever's next.
~ George Carlin
I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.
~ Jennifer Granholm
Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?
~ Mary Anthony