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Quotes About Movement

Whatever little we have gained, we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
~ Daniel O'Connell
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
~ Will Rogers
Revolutions are not made; they come.
~ Wendell Phillips
Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written.
~ Alice Walker
Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
~ Dinah Mulock Craik
The cure for grief is motion.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
~ John Keble
Sex is an emotion in motion.
~ Mae West
How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
~ Antoine de St. Exupery
The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
~ Phil Woosnam
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.
~ Natash Jasefowitz
Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou, thyself, movest alone.
~ James MacPherson
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one which rolls.
~ Amelia Earhart
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
~ Mary Caroline Richards
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
~ Bishop Berkeley
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.
~ Bible
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
~ Proverbs
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Thought flies and words go on foot.
~ Julien Green
Dust does not lift without wind.
~ Haitian proverb
Pyramidal phenomena occurred in cycles, without it ever being possible to determine precisely the timing of their appearance: for no one has ever been able to establish with certainty whather what happens is the future, or just the past moving backwards, like a crab. People ended up acccepting that maybe neither the past nor the future were what they were thought to be, since both could reverse their direction of travel, like trams at a terminus (p.119).
~ Ismail Kadare
gospodstvo je kao veliki vjetar; kre?e se, kida i osipa.
~ Ivo Andri?
Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.
~ J. Gresham Machen