Quotes About Movement

Lizards flashed up the pine-trunks like living emerald necklaces.

The sun moved, came on me, made me erotic. Sometimes to return is a vulgarity. The profoundest distances are never geographical.

Their fear of the open and of the naked. Hide reality, shut out nature. The revolutionary art movement of Charles's day was of course the Pre-Raphaelite. They, at least, were making an attempt to admit nature and sexuality.

They, the lawmakers, were hoodwinked by the insurance companies who are still funding the national tort reform movement, a political crusade that has been wildly successful.

The faster I ran, the faster the llama ran. I could hear the monkey squealing, having fun, I guess.

movement to reform the practice of solitary confinement was struggling to gain momentum. Said movement had not made it to Florida.

That's when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn't even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers.

Events moved with breathtaking speed in May, when John Knox

Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

But part of that incipient racism had always led whites to assume the leadership positions and perpetuated the view that whites rather than blacks were the heroes of the movement.

As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro--to and fro. If, at this moment in time Twisted River also appeared restless, even impatient, maybe the river itself wanted the boy's body to move on, too, move on, too.

Heather moved her fingers all the while they were walking, as if she were unconsciously playing a piano or an organ.

In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.

I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what?

Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that walk didn't describe it.

Despite having built his own movement with little help from Moscow, the new Chinese leader was a dedicated Marxist-Leninist who was more than ready to defer to Stalin as the head of the international communist movement. The new China, he announced in June, 1949, must ally "with the Soviet Union, . . . and with the proletariat and broad masses of the people in all other countries, and form an international united front. . . . We must lean to one side."53

But I don't call it immigration, I call it migration. As a species it's very healthy for us to get up and move around the planet. Sometimes certain groups of people have to do that for economic reasons. Nobody's doing it just to be spiteful. Everybody loves the idea of a homeland. I used to, but I've kind of got the bigger picture now. It's a home planet to me.

Thomsonism was the most popular layman's medical movement but hardly the only one. Dozens of what can only be called sects arose across the countryside. A Thomsonian rhyme summed up the attitude: "The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the

thought itself is best understood as planning; even higher forms of thought, such as philosophy, the epitome of disembodied speculation, proceed, they argue, by hijacking algorithms originally developed to help us plan movements.

The human potential movement can be dated to the fall of 1962 in Big Sur, at what would soon be named the Esalen Institute.

Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.