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Quotes About Movement

Sycamore seed twirling,O, writhe to its measure!Dust swirling trims pleasure.Thorns prance in a gale.In air snow flickers,twigs tap,elms drip.Swaggering, shimmering fall,drench and towel us all!
~ Basil Bunting
Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth-for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.
~ Basil Henry Liddell Hart
And if the origin of things is not like the ground of the planet that seems to be the base, but like the circular movement that the planet describes around a mobile center, then a car, a clock, or a sewing machine could equally be accepted as the generative principle.
~ bataille georges ii
There is something very affirming about the idea that the narrative is the big thing, and it is not clear if it is good or bad, or if it is moving in a good or bad direction. It's just moving. You have to draw meaning from the whole.
~ batuman elif ii
There is in all change something at once agreeable and infamous, something that smacks of infidelity and of moving day.
~ baudelaire charles iii
You have to travel, keep on the move. You have to cross oceans, cities, continents, latitudes. Not to acquire a more informed vision of the world ... but in order to get as near as possible to the worldwide sphere of exchange, to enjoy ubiquity, cosmopolitan extraversion, to escape the illusion of intimacy.
~ baudrillard jean iii
When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
~ Bear Grylls
We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.
~ Beatrice Bruteau
We have to realize we are building a movement.
~ Dorothy Height
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
~ Gregory Hines
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
~ Michael Medved
I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.
~ Andrew Breitbart
We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.
~ Tommy Lasorda
The BDS movement goes way beyond any legitimate, reasonable criticism of a government.
~ Lee Zeldin
It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women's movement, or of women's rights advocacy.
~ Rebecca Traister
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.
~ Chris Hardwick
The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
~ Vivienne Westwood
We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.
~ Gail Bradbrook
Getting the rebound and going, that's probably the most fluid part of my game.
~ Ben Simmons
When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.
~ Clarence Seedorf
Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
~ Earl Monroe
To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.
~ Gerardo Martino
If I know where I want to play before I receive the ball, it's easier. It's more fluid.
~ Raphael Varane
Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.
~ Austin Seferian-Jenkins