Quotes About Movement

The movement has kept itself from full development by denying, ignoring, and rejecting parts of itself, including its spiritual legacy.

I think the soul must be heavy and smooth, Myrna: I deduce this from the buoyant, jerky movements of puppets, which lack souls.

Was turning it this way and that in order to catch fireflies in the billowing, transparent left sleeve of her gown.

But in an unfamiliar house, when you're uncertain where you're going, every movement is prolonged by the sense that you're going to try the wrong door or get in someone's way and bother someone.

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

The murder of Ernst Winter and the violence that followed provided the struggling anti-Semitic parties with an opportunity to revitalize their movement.

I was born by the river

Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It't just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization.

In general, the removal of energy from gravitationally bound systems accelerates the movement of their components. This also goes for systems whose components move about randomly: the faster their random motion, the higher their temperature. This means that the temperature of gravitationally bound systems increase as they give off energy.

The living being is above all a thoroughfare, and ... the essence of life is in the movement by which life is transmitted.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

En ce sens, on pourrait dire que la nature obtient souvent elle-même des succès de caricaturiste. Dans le mouvement par lequel elle a fendu cette bouche, rétréci ce menton, gonflé cette joue, il semble qu'elle ait réussi à aller jusqu'au bout de sa grimace, trompant la surveillance modératrice d'une force plus raisonnable. Nous rions alors d'un visage qui est à lui-même pour ainsi dire, sa propre caricature.

En nous faisant saisir dans une intuition unique des moments multiples de la durée, elle nous dégage du mouvement d'écoulement des choses, c'est-à-dire du rythme de la nécessité.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

The average deaf person has the peripheral vision of a fish-eye lens, almost 180 degrees, and spots the tiniest movement within this range long before the average hearing person can do so. In practical terms this superior visual acuity has led some automobile insurance companies in recent years to give sizable rate discounts to deaf drivers.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus