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Quotes About Movement

La danza è l'eterno risorgere del Sole.
~ Isadora Duncan
You are a gypsy, so you think it is only the freedom to move from place to place. Real freedom is a thing no one can take from you, because it is of the spirit. I keep it here. He tapped his head. [ Chapter 9, page 87]
~ Isobelle Carmody
Man is a moving being. If he does not move to what is good, he will surely move to that what is not. If this consciousness does not arise here, another consciousness will arise there. Man's mind goes through multifarious changes and never stops.
~ Unknown
A person who walks well does not move his body from his waist up, but rather walks with his legs. Thus, his body is serene, his internal organs are not stressed, and he is not worn out. You should observe the manner in which men carry heavy loads.
~ Unknown
One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.
~ Italo Calvino
Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.
~ Italo Calvino
Quello che vorresti é l'aprirsi d'uno spazio e d'un tempo astratti ed assoluti in cui muoverti seguendo una traiettoria esatta e tesa; ma quando ti sembra di riuscirci t'accorgi d'esser fermo, bloccato, costretto a ripetere tutto da capo.
~ Italo Calvino
an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises.
~ Italo Calvino
The horses start tugging, one this way, one that; the wheels are drawn to such a divergence that they seem perpendicular to the road, a sign that the chariot has stopped. Or else, if it is moving, it might as well remain still, as happens to many people before whom the ramps of the most smooth and speedy roads open.
~ Italo Calvino
un paesaggio invisibile condiziona quello visibile, tutto ciò che si muove al sole è spinto dall'onda che batte chiusa sotto il cielo calcareo della roccia.
~ Italo Calvino
Wci?? s? w ruchu te same przedmioty, przechodz?c z jednego obozu do innego, czy z jednego pu?ku do innego w tym samym obozie; czym?e zreszt? innym jest w ogóle wojna, je?li nie przechodzeniem z r?k do r?k dobytku coraz bardziej sponiewieranego?
~ Italo Calvino
Para guardar sus libros, Cosimo construyo en varias ecuaciones una especie de bibliotecas colgantes, defendidas de la mejor manera posible de la lluvia y de los roedores, pero las cambiaba continuamente de sitio, según los estudios y los gustos del momento, porque consideraba los libros un poco como los pájaros y no quería verlos quietos o enjaulados, decía que se entristecían.
~ Italo Calvino
I can be sure that even in this tiny, insignificant episode there is implicit everything I have ever experienced, all the past, the multiple past I have tried in vain to leave behind me, the lives that in the end are soldered into an overall life, which continues even in this place from which I have decided I must not move…
~ Italo Calvino
Inutilmente chiudete le vostre porte, - questa era la risposta che ci si poteva attendere dalla portatrice d'acqua, - io mi guardo bene dall'entrare in una Città che è tutta di metallo compatto. Noi abitatori del fluido visitiamo solo gli elementi che scorrono e si mescolano.
~ Italo Calvino
Anche ricordare il male può essere un piacere quando il male è mescolato non dico al bene ma al vario, al mutevole, al movimentato, insomma a quello che posso pure chiamare il bene e che è il piacere di vedere le cose a distanza e di raccontarle come ciò che è passato.
~ Italo Calvino
La pagina ha il suo bene solo quando la volti e c'è la vita dietro che spinge e scompiglia tutti i fogli del libro.
~ Unknown
Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability to stop and adjust instantly in the midst of movement—just in case you initiate a wrong move!
~ Unknown
Hoe voel je je?' 'Als een schip,' zeg ik, 'een schip, een zeilschip dat in een windstilte is terechtgekomen. En dan plotseling is er even weer wat wind vaar ik weer. Dan heeft de wereld weer vat op me en kan ik weer meebewegen.
~ Unknown
Soms gaan de gedachten zo razendsnel dat ik ze bijna niet meer kan denken, ze spoelen door mij heen en dan moet ik huilen. En dan opeens staat alles weer stil, verstard als op een toverlantarenplaatje en lijkt niets ooit meer van zijn plaats te kunnen komen en moet je weer gaan lopen om je omgeving op gang te krijgen. Zomaar lopen omdat je anders niet meer kunt voelen dat je ergens thuishoort, dat er tijd verstrijkt.
~ Unknown
It is a bitter irony of history, indeed, that the founder of communism should be literally kept alive by a wealthy industrialist, and that a "capitalist's" son, turned communist, should become the second "father" of this revolutionary movement.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze.
~ J. G. Ballard
At the very root of the modern liberal movement is the loss of the consciousness of sin.
~ J. Gresham Machen
The movement designated as "liberalism" is regarded as "liberal" only by its friends; to its opponents it seems to involve a narrow ignoring of many relevant facts.
~ J. Gresham Machen
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
~ J. P. Morgan