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Quotes About Movement

I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon.
~ Patti Smith
The merry-go-round was slowing down.
~ Patti Smith
I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
~ Paul Anka
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within.
~ Paul Auster
Todo lo inanimado se desintegraba, todo lo viviente moría. Cada vez que pensaba en esto notaba latidos en la cabeza al imaginar los furiosos y acelrados movimientos de las moléculas, las incesantes explosiones de la materia, el hirviente caos oculto bajo la superficie de todas las cosas.
~ Paul Auster
He read many books, he looked at paintings, he went to the movies. In the summer he watched baseball on television in the winter he went to the opera. More than anything else, however, what he liked to do was walk. Nearly every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, he would leave his apartment to walk through the city—never really going anywhere, but simply going wherever his legs happened to take him.
~ Paul Auster
hameye ma dar barkhord ba gozashte chenin raftar mikonim,sagha va adamha
~ Paul Auster
I'd stand still for a few seconds, vainly snapping my fingers with as much hop of catching the beat as a quadriplegic hobo latching on to a moving boxcar.
~ Paul Beatty
and what they do that looks so beautiful, is hunt .
~ Unknown
Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.
~ Paul Bowles
Rock n roll stops the traffic.
~ Unknown
Met het verleden in mijn hand als een papiertje harlekijn, wanneer je aan het koordje trekt schieten armen en benen in beweging, je kan het ene niet stilleggen zonder het andere, op beklemmende wijze zit alles als een raderwerk met mekaar in verband.
~ Unknown
The current human rights movement in Africa - with the possible exception of the women's rights movement and faith-based social justice initiatives - appears almost by design to exclude the participation of the people whose welfare it purports to advance.' - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
~ Paul Farmer
entrenchment of social conservatism, being a strident belief in God, King and Country that arose after the disillusionment of the Belle Époque (which was never anything other than an elitist movement that scarcely touched the majority of ordinary people).
~ Unknown
People Like Us Taking Over
~ Unknown
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.
~ Paul Hawken
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
~ Paul Hawken
Think of the circular path of each movement, in Tai Chi every movement is in curve or circle that has no ending or beginning.
~ Unknown
If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens. Such a body has no place to rest. . . . Let another continue this poem.
~ Paul Reps
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
~ Paul Robeson
I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
~ Paul Robeson
Mors sagged back into her seat and swallowed hard. To her knowledge, an Imperial Star Destroyer had never before been destroyed. And now one had, above the planet she was administering, by a rebel movement that she was supposed to suppress.
~ Paul S. Kemp
He felt the Emperor's eyes on him, the intensity of the gaze, the weight of his expectations, and Vader knew that the day's events had been only half about depleting a rebel movement before it could grow. They had also, as Vader had suspected, been about testing him, forcing him to face the ghosts of his past and exorcise them forever and fully.
~ Paul S. Kemp
You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.
~ Paul Simon