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Quotes About Movement

Barefoot running is often described as a fad—one that will fizzle after a few years. But as Dr. Lieberman says, "If barefoot running is a fad, then it's a two-million-year-old fad.
~ John Durant
Far more calories are used to heat the body than to move it.
~ John Durant
Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door.
~ John Edward Williams
When characters got up and moved on their own I found it so unnerving that I would stop writing for days. Glue eventually held them down.
~ John Elder Robison
If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too
~ John Fante
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
No," Hal said. "The sea is moving constantly and you have to make little adjustments to keep it going smoothly. You can't take it for granted." "Just like a friendship," she said smiling. And Hal nodded. "Maybe that's why the word ends in ship," he said.
~ John Flanagan
Always move forward if you have the option.
~ John Flanagan
She's very good," he said to Horace. "Will has taught her well." "You're all very good," Horace said. "I can never see any of you once you start sneaking around." "Sneaking around?" said Gilan in a hurt voice. "We prefer to call it 'unseen movement.'" "Call it what you like," Horace said. "To me it's sneaking around.
~ John Flanagan
Sorry Ulf, maar ik moest je tegenhouden voordat je verder banjerde. Ik wil niet dat je allerlei sporen uitwist die hij daar achtergelaten kan hebben.' 'Als je maar weet dat ik niet banjer,' zei Ulf, een tikkeltje beledigd. 'Ik beweeg me heel lichtvoetig voort.' 'Neem me niet kwalijk,' zei Lydia. 'Ik bedoelde natuurlijk te zeggen dat ik je moest tegenhouden voordat je daar heel lichtvoetig allerlei sporen zou uitwissen.
~ John Flanagan
back on the other, pivoting the neat craft in her own length. Then both
~ John Flanagan
En hoe weet je dat hij een slechte adem heeft?' Hal keek haar mismoedig aan. 'Hij is een zij, en zij is de halfgod van dans en beweging,' legde hij uit. Lydia trok een wenkbrauw op. 'Ja, van haar kun jij wel wat hulp gebruiken, te oordelen naar de manier waarop jij hier rondstrompelt.
~ John Flanagan
Good boy,' she said and swung herself easily up and into the saddle. And all hell broke loose. Bumper seemed to spring off the ground from all four feet, arching his back and throwing her off balance. Then he came down with a teeth-jarring crash and promptly put his head down, exploding his rump up into the air.
~ John Flanagan
It took years of training to achieve the level of silence with which a Ranger could move.
~ John Flanagan
Start with the bow hand close to your body, not extended. Then push with your bow hand and pull with the other. That way you're using the muscles of both arms, not just the string arm.
~ John Flanagan
Life calls the tune, we dance.
~ John Galsworthy
you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...
~ John Geddes
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
We make sense of the world, some philosopher once said, only through its rearrangement, through a constant shift in perspective coupled with a slight movement of this or that here and there and then here again. In that manner, in the imperfections such movements reveal, the truth becomes apparent.
~ John Gregory Brown
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
~ John Guare
The possibilities of Evolution as an alternative religion were similarly perceived by a later popularizer, Wilhelm Bölsche, who spoke of the scientific movement as having effected a "Second Reformation." There had been an Old and a New Testament; now there was a third, the testament of science, which transcended both.
~ John Hedley Brooke
The tide tarrieth no man.
~ John Heywood
I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.
~ John Hodgman
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
~ John Hume