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Quotes About Movement

The surging wave of refugees surrounded the truck, preventing them from moving forward. Sometimes it was impossible for the soldiers to move at all. They would fold their arms and wait until someone let them pass.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Silently, with no lights on, cars kept coming, one after the other, full to bursting with baggage and furniture, prams and birdcages, packing cases and baskets of clothes, each with a mattress tied firmly to the roof.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
All was movement, all was change, and somehow this was visible and yet unimaginable.
~ Iris Murdoch
Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.
~ Irvine Welsh
But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.
~ Irvine Welsh
You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea
~ Irving Berlin
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
~ Isaac Asimov
You might as well ask why the same man sprints safely across an obstacle course in the day, and falls over the furniture in his room at night.
~ Isaac Asimov
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop. Q.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is that state of anarchy which my project is pledged to fight. The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity – a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
~ Isaac Asimov
The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.
~ Isabel Allende
I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.
~ Isabel Allende
De la quietud nace la inspiración y del movimiento surge la creatividad.
~ Isabel Allende
El orgullo de quien se cree hermosa daba a su andar un ritmo insolente.
~ Isabel Allende
Feminism, like the ocean, is fluid, powerful, deep, and encompasses the infinite complexity of life; it moves in waves, currents, tides, and sometimes in storms. Like the ocean, feminism never stays quiet.
~ Isabel Allende
En la vida no se llega a ninguna parte, Eliza, se camina no más.
~ Isabel Allende
Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn't move at all and it is we who pass through it.
~ Isabel Allende
Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.
~ Isabel Allende
El femenismo no me alcanzó para repartir las tareas doméstics, en verdade esa idea no me pasó por la cabeza, creía que la liberación consistía en salir al mundo y echarme encima los deberes masculinos, pero no pensé que también trataba de delegar parte de mi carga. El resultado fue mucho cansacio, como le pasó a milllones de mujeres de mi generación que hoy cuestionam los movimientos feministas.
~ Isabel Allende
A minha memoria move-se em circulos, espirais e saltos de trapezista.
~ Isabel Allende
You explained to me that inspiration is born of stillness, and creativity comes from movement.
~ Isabel Allende
El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.
~ Isabel Allende
discovered flamenco dancing, which
~ Isabel Allende
Baila, baila, Zarité, porque esclavo que baila es libre… mientras baila
~ Isabel Allende