Quotes About Movement

human prosperity never abides long in the same place

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.

Who can take a single step with his head?

Os varredores de rua estão trabalhando. Eles varrem as lâmpadas, varrem as ruas para fora da cidade, varrem o morar das casas, me varrem os pensamentos da cabeça, me varrem de uma perna para outra, me varrem os passos do andar.

Lá no alto, sobre a cumeada, uma mancha compacta de sobretudos verde-escuros feitos de agulhas. Por baixo, rigorosamente alinhadas, até onde a vista alcança, as pernas de pau dos troncos, que param quando paras, andam quando andas e correm quando corres.

Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis pastHow fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

Dynamism is a function of change.

Walking is man's best medicine.

The dreaming attention-the second attention that is like a sewage or diarrhea can move to other people

I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind...

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

water wants to flow

Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster.

His every movement is languorous. It feels dangerous to rest my gaze on him for too long, as though he is so thoroughly debauched that it might be contagious.

The weight of the sea seemed to pass down on him. He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it. There would be no lying on beds of moss, no barbed words easily spoken, no falling down from too much wine, no dancing at all.

They streak past me in to the hall in a blast of gossamer.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Le char de la civilisation, semblable à celui de l'idole de Jaggernaut, à peine retardé par un cœur moins facile à broyer que les autres et qui enraye sa roue, l'a brisé bientôt et continue sa marche glorieuse.

To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.