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Quotes About Movement

To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it progress; and we may define progress by the word tomorrow.
~ Victor Hugo
Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement.
~ Victor Hugo
Revolution cannot really be conquered... If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Tomorrow performs its work irresistibly, and it does it from today.
~ Victor Hugo
Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
~ Victor Hugo
Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus : après la philosophie, il faut l'action.
~ Victor Hugo
To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
~ Victor Hugo
The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived.
~ Victor Hugo
for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart!
~ Victor Hugo
You can't stop an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
porque es una cosa muy obscura y muy dulce ese grande y extraño movimiento de un corazón que se pone a amar.
~ Victor Hugo
music; the wave tops form notes and rise up and
~ Kristin Hannah
I unlocked the door of my apartment, where the only movement, while I was gone, had been the light moving across the walls from the morning to evening and a scuttling roach or two, and the air inside smelled of loneliness. The ache got eased a little the next day, after I'd picked up my dog from my sister, gotten sucked back into the slipstream of the city. But only a little. And soon it spread, until the word home could make me cry. I wanted one.
~ Kristin Kimball
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
But it was Joshua Alexander who began striding toward him.
~ Kyle Mills
The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Empty leaves fly with the wind, Empty people fly over time.
~ L.F. Magister
Messenger boys zipped by on delivery bikes
~ L.J. Smith
There is no other limit to the size of the Socialist party than the number of workers and wage-earners.
~ Leon Blum
His arms around her, that's what she wanted, and… she wanted movement that spoke to movement, skin to skin and sweat to heat to breath to gasp.
~ Laini Taylor
Akiva felt the tilt of the world trying to tip him forward: to be nearer to her--nearer and touching--as though that were the only state of rest, and every other action and movement were geared to achieving it.
~ Laini Taylor
Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters.
~ Laini Taylor
se misca precum un poem si zambea precum un sfinx
~ Laini Taylor
Inspired, Karou said, 'Hey! That's what you should do for your project. Make a giant puppeteer, and you be the marionette. You know? You could make it so that when you move, it's like, I don't know, reverse puppetry. Has anyone done that before? You're the puppet, dancing from strings, but really it's your movements that are making the puppeteer's hands move?
~ Laini Taylor
Our enemies don't always stay where we put them.
~ Laini Taylor