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Quotes About Movement

It's always better to be doing.
~ Garth Nix
Everything moved rapidly after the tea was drunk.
~ Garth Nix
Sabriel sentiu o turbilhão familiar de energia e a sensação de cair numa galáxia infindável de estrelas. Mas, aqui, as estrelas eram os símbolos da Carta, ligados numa dança sem princípio nem fim, mas que continha e descrevia o mundo no seu movimento. Sabriel conhecia apenas uma pequena fração dos símbolos, mas sabia o que dançavam e sentiu a pureza da Carta a banhá-la.
~ Garth Nix
Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
~ Gary Keller
like a nobody, like a woman in regional sales gliding through airport lounges in the previrus era, always moving, always herself.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
~ Gary Snyder
The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.
~ Gary Snyder
Get drunk all the time. Go someplace and score. Walk in and walk out of the Asp Hike up Tam Keep quitting and starting at Berkeley Watch the pike in the Steinhart Aquarium: he doesn't move. Sleeping with stangers Keeping up on the news Chanting sutras after sitting Practicing yr frailing on guitar Get dropped off in the fog in the night Fall in love twenty times Get divorced Keep moving — move out to the Sunset Get lost — or Get found
~ Gary Snyder
Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts again when we are alone. As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere; we are dreaming in a world that is immense. Indeed, immense is the movement of motionless man. It is one of the dynamic characteristics of quiet daydreaming.
~ Gaston Bachelard
What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence.
~ Gaston Bachelard
his body close to the ground, he turned and
~ Gene Wolfe
The pace of words is the pace of walking, and the pace of walking is also the pace of thought.
~ Geoff Nicholson
Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.
~ Geoff Ryman
Müdigkeit spürte er keine, nur war es ihm manchmal unangenehm, dass er nicht auf dem Kopf gehen konnte.
~ Georg Buchner
To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother and uncle are present to the peasant woman, thus Plato, Spinoza, etc. are present to the philosopher. The one has as much reality as the other, but the latter are immortal.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence: there are too few of them. Until a movement shows itself capable of spreading among brigands, it can never hope for a political majority.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
~ George Bernard Shaw
But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
~ George Carlin
My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.
~ George Carlin
I simply go about my passage swiftly and silently, with a certain deliberate, dark efficiency.
~ George Carlin
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
~ George Eliot