Quotes About Movement

To Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing and his men, the first sign of Hooker's intention to abandon the Fredericksburg-Falmouth front came in the form of a telegram received at Second Corps headquarters on June 6, which directed that the soldiers of the corps have three days' rations in their haversacks, and that all wagons be loaded with stores and the trains put in readiness for any order to move. The order, the telegram stated, "may possibly be given to move early tomorrow."8

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

time zig-zags like a running man avoiding bullets

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

For run as fast as ever I may, My heart Moves only with you, Only with your blossoms, Remembering them Or awaiting them, Moving when you move in the wind And still when you are still.

No joys are there that can compare With dancing, prancing everywhere; I'd sooner wear, I do declare, A dancer's wreath than crowns so rare.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don't have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

A memory is a luminous miniature, like the hologram of the princess, in that movie, that the faithful robot carried in his circuits from galaxy to galaxy. The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting. All movement, the great horizon, the journey, is a spasm of forgetting, which bends in the bubble of memory. Memory is always portable, it is always in the hands of a wandering automaton.

Direction is not of any use to a person who is not moving. God

I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think

Fascination arises when the unconscious has been moved.

There is one more point to be made. The spirit of the age is in constant movement. It is like a river that flows on, invisibly but surely, and given the momentum of life in our century, even 10 years is a long time.

there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun. Except maybe a chainsaw

there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun.

widening gyre

four stoplights

The rhythms of the road were like rivers that flooded and receded in perpetuity.

fluid sloshing

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Sempre posso parar, olhar além da janela. Mas do interior do trem, nunca é fixa a paisagem.

Caminhei para a porta, tão vitorioso que meu passo era uma folha vadia, dançando na brisa da tardezinha.

A physicist on his way to lunch in the cafeteria was like a magnet rolling past iron filings.

The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit.