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Quotes About Movement

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
~ Matthew Arnold
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
~ Blaise Pascal
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
~ James Montgomery
followed me to the sideboard like Willie Pep chasing some little pisher around the ring.
~ Philip Roth
Puppets can fly, levitate, twirl, but only people and marionettes are confined to running and walking.
~ Philip Roth
window, with Rig trotting
~ Philippa Gregory
What will happen when I am old and I can dance no more?
~ Philippa Gregory
A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
~ Pico Iyer
not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it's often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.
~ Pico Iyer
But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.
~ Plato
wherever the argument, like a wind, tends, thither must we go.
~ Plato
Wherefore also finding the whole visible sphere not at rest, but moving in an irregular and disorderly fashion, out of disorder he brought order, considering that this was in every way better than the other.
~ Plato
For the body which is moved from without is soulless; but that which is moved from within has a soul... (Tr. Jowett)
~ Plato
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
~ Plato
The sphere of sense, the Soul in its slumber; for all of the Soul that is in body is asleep and the true getting-up is not bodily but from the body: in any movement that takes the body with it there is no more than passage from sleep to sleep, from bed to bed.
~ Plotinus
When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Los pensamientos de todos los hombres surgen de la oscuridad. Si eres el movimiento de tu alma, y la causa de ese movimiento te precede, entonces, ¿cómo podrías llamar tuyos a tus pensamientos? ¿Cómo podrías ser otra cosa que un esclavo de la oscuridad que antecede a todo?
~ R. Scott Bakker
I gabbed Ivy's arm. Look. Ivy. Something just moved - by that tombstone. We both stared into the gray light. Oh, noooo, I moaned. I watched, trembling in horror as someone climbed out of a grave.
~ R.L. Stine
When the Word and Spirit come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the nation, and indeed the world, has ever seen.1 —SMITH WIGGLESWORTH (1859–1947)
~ R.T. Kendall
Follow my finger. He moved it around, tracking my eye movements. Any blurred vision? Well I think I'm hallucinating, because I see a big talking pile of crap. - Joanne Baldwin.
~ Rachel Caine
Homeschooling is still a thing, isn't it?" And it would have been an easy answer, too. I'd considered it seriously, many times, but the paperwork took ages, and until recently we'd always been on the move. Besides, I want my kids to be socialized. To be part of the normal world.
~ Rachel Caine
A party, like the human body, will fall into rigor mortis without proper circulation.
~ Rachel Cohn
Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.
~ Rachel Kadish