Quotes About Movement

To become an abstraction: The Mother, Down On One Knee. This was life after he came - she orbits him, I chart her movements. That she could call him a blessing, the sun in her sky. She was no more the girl that I'd married.

Only in Boston AA can you hear a fifty-year-old immigrant wax lyrical about his first solid bowel movement in adult life.

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

Action is eloquence.

carriages coming along the street

he dug the paddle into the water first on one side of the canoe, then on the other.

Better wear out than rust out.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Le sabbie mobili si stavano muovendo sotto di lui.

Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

Wyclif, who died in 1384, had appealed to the conscience of his age. Baffled, though not silenced, in England, his inspiration stirred a distant and little-known land, and thence disturbed Europe. Students from Prague had come to Oxford, and carried his doctrines, and indeed the manuscripts of his writings, to Bohemia. From this sprang the movement by which the fame of John Huss eclipsed that of his English master and evoked the enduring national consciousness of the Czech people.

No operation of a war is more critical than a night-march.

La sorpresa, la rapidez y la intensidad del ataque están supeditadas al estado de preparación del enemigo en un momento dado. Todo movimiento emprendido por un bando puede ser anulado por un movimiento contrario del adversario. En una operación de esta clase, fuerza y tiempo vienen a ser magnitudes de valor equivalente y que pueden en gran medida expresarse en las mismas unidades: una semana perdida viene a equivaler a una división

Two things stop the offensive movements of armies: (a) Bullets and fragments of shell which destroy the motive power of men, and (b) The confusion of the conflict.

Además, el proceso de agenciarse carbón era una dificultad y un peligro extraordinarios. La extensa organización del Almirantazgo tenía servicios de vigilancia en cada puerto, sobre cada tonelada y en todo carbonero probable. La compra del carbón y el movimiento de un carbonero podían muy bien proporcionar una pista a los perseguidores.

as the acorn is nourished by the dead leaves of the oak, the hope strengthens that the rise and fall of men and their movements are only the changing foliage of the ever-growing tree of life

the S.A. had become to a large extent a revolutionary movement fanned by the discontents of temperamental or embittered subversives and the desperation of ruined men. They differed from the Bolsheviks whom they denounced no more than the North Pole does from the South.

Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue.