Quotes About Movement

Ogniqualvolta si trovava in viaggio da un luogo all'altro, era in grado di valutare la propria vita con un po' più di obiettività del solito. Spesso, proprio durante un viaggio i suoi pensieri divenivano particolarmente lucidi, e prendeva decisioni cui non poteva arrivare quand'era fermo in un luogo.

In theory, the quadriceps and hamstrings shouldn't contract at the same time to move the body, because they are antagonistic—i.e., on opposite sides of the limb. But they do, and they do so strongly. Kinesiologists call this phenomenon Lombard's Paradox.

It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down above the blowhole. On top of the spray sat a black-haired woman.

He reconsidered, subjected to criticism, and verified on the working-class movement everything that human thinking had created.

I don't mean that conservatism in general is dying. But what I and others mean by "movement conservatism," a term I think I learned from the historian Rick Perlstein, is something more specific: an interlocking set of institutions and alliances that won elections by stoking cultural and racial anxiety but used these victories mainly to push an elitist economic agenda, meanwhile providing a support network for political and ideological loyalists.

Our life's dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It's not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply had to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear.

These notes would one day form the foundation of a global UFO movement called "Rama," based on many books written by both Charlie and his brother Sixto about their experience.

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is made visible, and it moves as the landscape moves.

I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts

and the relief of being able to walk around without having to search for a parking place added to the pleasure of strolling

What about writers—are they protesting?" "Yes, many," María said. "Juan Villoro?" "Villoro has written a great deal, and he is a friend to our movement.

Travel had to do with movement and truth, with trying everything, offering yourself to experience and then reporting it.

sweeper with his handcart was a feature of every border town I visited

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on a hillside," Joyce writes in Ulysses. "For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.

A train journey is travel; everything else—planes especially—is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands.—GRB

It was always like a fire drill, getting on or off a Chinese train, with people panting and pushing

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

Life is the train and not the station.

When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It's in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don't understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.