Quotes About Movement

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

Because Helen Clarke was ungraceful by nature, she managed to make the simple act of moving into a room and sitting down a complex ballet for three people; before Constance had quite finished speaking Helen Clarke jostled Mrs. Wright and sent Mrs. Wright sideways like a careening croquet ball off into the far corner of the room where she sat abruptly and clearly without intention upon a small and uncomfortable chair.

The four of them stood, for the first time, in the wide, dark entrance hall of Hill House. Around them the house steadied and located them, above them the hills slept watchfully, small eddies of air and sound and movement stirred and waited and whispered, and the center of consciousness was somehow the small space where they stood, four separated people, and looked trustingly at one another.

DANCE, WATER DANCE!

I shook so hard from fear that the couch moved from the wall.

There is no doubt that it is comic if someone can 'waggle his ears', and it would certainly be still more comic if he could move his nose up and down.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving.To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the windand sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor

In order to understand a hysterical attack, all one has to do is to look for the situation in which the movements in question formed part of an appropriate and expedient action.

As a tool for dealing with the lows I stick to my mantra. I put one foot in front of the other and take a step. I do something – anything.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

Most plates move relatively slowly—the North American Plate, for example, is shifting westward at about twenty millimeters a year, somewhat less than the rate at which human fingernails grow. The Pacific Plate is, by contrast, something of a speed demon: it moves ten times as rapidly, and in a habitual northwesterly direction, covering something like two centimeters each year.

What stops them is that as soon as they give the word "end" its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life.

We only exist if we act.

Sei que hei-de fazer um movimento. A porta abrir-se-á e poderei ver o que está para além dela. É o futuro. A porta do futuro vai abrir-se. Lentamente. Implacavelmente. Estou no limiar. Existe somente uma porta e o que me espia por trás. Tenho medo. E não posso chamar ninguém por socorro. Tenho medo.

Exister authentiquement ce n'est pas nier le mouvement spontané de ma transcendance, mais seulement refuser de me perdre en lui

Our hold on the future is limited; the movement of expansion of existence requires that we strive at every moment to amplify it; but where it stops our future stops too; beyond, there is nothing more because nothing more is disclosed.

God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.

Pharisees lived "according to the strictest party of . . . religion."3 The name itself is probably derived from the root "to separate." Pharisaism was essentially a conservative "holiness movement." So

A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities.

I decided with this new awareness to dedicate my day to moving at my own natural, calm pace, and not pressuring myself to get going, get moving, or hurry up at all, something quite different from what I otherwise did.

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

A relationship is a game of chess.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.