Quotes About Movement

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

She moved with the confidence of privilege . .

As soon as she left the attic, she was picked up and swept along by the fast-running current of her life.

It was interesting how you could say things when you were walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.

He remembered a different body. A different time. The almighty roar of an ecstatic crowd. The way the sound used to vibrate in his chest. Once there had been no barrier at all between his mind and his body. He thought "run" and he ran. He thought "jump" and he jumped.

Connie looked like a young person who had aged a great deal. She was frail, and moved slowly but impatiently, as if she was driving too slow a car. You could tell that once upon a time she'd been the sort of person who never sat still.

She was back on her skates, twirling expertly

He moved as slowly as an hour-hand in a crowd of second-hands.

I want that freedom to move around outdoors, to do so without always feeling watched, threatened, restricted, or accountable to someone. To not be a babe—innocent or lusty. To just be in the woods.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it.

If we don't insist on defining impermanence as unsatisfactory, then it's natural to celebrate. Just a moments pause to consider the passing of the seasons is enough to convince anyone that not only is impermanence the source of all possible joy in this life but its the movement of life itself.

If there is a hero, it is choreography.

And they began to move to the music, quickly learning each other's nuances. They soon danced with fluidity and grace, as though they'd been partners a hundred times before. "You really move well," she said softly. "A natural.

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.

Yes... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ...about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

The whirling wheels, that help us on our way, A lesson to the children, too, will say: "Go on! there's work awaiting you to-day; The whole world moves apace, you must not stay.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

Sometimes I feel it right under my ribs. In my throat. Under my breastbone. It moves around. Sometimes it lodges in my lower back, and I slump in my chair. It's an ache. It feels a little bit like having a mobile tumor or blood clot or kidney stone.

In my understanding, the women's movement is first and foremost about memory. It is about remembering the women who lived, struggled, worked and loved before us, including those who we've never heard about. The women's movement is a sense of continuity in time, knowing that you are part of a river, constantly flowing, changing, expanding. - Elif Shafak

When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport.

She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave her seemed to reveal the depths of his lustful, longing, bitter soul. "Good-bye, Miss Fielding," he said hoarsely.

Scholars of totalitarianism talk about the importance of this constant movement, this forever war, this need to do battle on behalf of something that needs protection. In Russia, this something has been postulated as faith and traditional values.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.