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Quotes About Movement

No temas más, dice el corazón, confiando su carga a algún mar que suspira colectivamente por todas las penas, un mar que se renueva, que comienza a moverse, que se detiene y cae.
~ Virginia Woolf
The subject of autobiography is always self-definition, but it cannot be self-definition in a void. The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom—or rather the movement towards it—that counts.
~ Vivian Gornick
Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight
~ Vladimir Nabokov
She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths…
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The hoary judge put his mouth close to his ear, panted for a moment, made the announcement and slowly moved away, as though ungluing himself.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All the trees in the world are journeying somewhere. Perpetual pilgrimage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Time moves ahead of our fancies
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A bowling ball rolled through his head, diagonally from nape to temple; it paused and started back
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Tolstoy's prose keeps pace with our pulses, his characters seem to move with the same swing as the people passing under our window while we sit reading his book.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And when I get on the train I'll cast my blues aside.
~ Langston Hughes
He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.
~ Lao Tzu
Why a bird?" Another shrug. "They're free you know? They can go anywhere they want, whenever they want. They can just spread their wings and go.
~ Larissa Ione
He has created the Church to be a dynamic, growing, changing movement, not a static doctrine. The Spirit of God calls each generation to re-imagine church for its own context and culture. The Holy Spirit invites every generation into the struggle to discover answers and approaches for themselves about church-answers that bring them into fresh partnership with God and fresh contact with their culture.
~ Larry Kreider
Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.
~ Larry Niven
You just give total attention to the movement of energy known as fear, total mindfulness, not separating yourself from it at all, also not identifying with it.
~ Larry Rosenberg
But Christianity did not become successful through Constantine giving it imperial approval. Instead, Constantine adopted Christianity likely because it had already become so successful despite earlier efforts to destroy the movement.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.
~ Lars Iyer
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?
~ Laura Dave
teeming with inebriated ants. In
~ Laura Hillenbrand
I began to understand that dancing well had everything to do with believing you could. Like those dreams of flying- dipping gracefully through the air in your weightless body- if in your sleep, you stopped to think about it for more than half a second, you'd crash like a sack of dead ducks onto the roof of a church.
~ Laura Kasischke
Solvitur ambulando , St. Augustine said. It is solved by walking.
~ Laura Kelly
August passed like a dancer, graceful and sweating.
~ Laura London