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Quotes About Movement

y cuando pasó volando por la quinta planta, agitando los brazos en vano
~ Ken Follett
Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.
~ Ken Follett
In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind
~ Ken Follett
In dog philosophy it is always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.
~ Ken Follett
The cloud layer was moving on, and the sinking sun was visible behind its trailing edge out across the sea.
~ Ken Follett
Aldred was not shocked. He continued the discussion without pause. "On the other hand," he said, "your peasants are serfs, who need the permission of their lord to marry, change their way of making a living, or move to another
~ Ken Follett
Carlus hated furniture to be moved, for then he would stumble over it;
~ Ken Follett
The more he tries to stop it, the faster it goes. When he lets his hands and face move like they want to and doesn't try to hold them back, they flow and gesture in a way that's real pretty to watch, but when he worries about them and tries to hold back he becomes a wild, jerky puppet doing a high-strung dance. Everything is moving faster and faster, and his voice is speeding up to match.
~ Ken Kesey
and as this need grows more intense so does a sensation of movement, speed to come, impending declaration—"The past is funny, Viv; it never seems to let things lie, finished. It never seems to stay in place as it should"—until she feels that she is beginning to run down an ever steepening hill and she must stop before the hill gets too steep and she gets going too fast to stop:
~ Ken Kesey
damn this world that just won't hold still for us!
~ Ken Kesey
Suffering, then, is the initial movement of the recognition of false boundaries. Correctly understood, it is therefore liberating, for it points beyond boundaries altogether. We suffer, then, not because we are sick, but because intelligent insight is emerging.
~ Ken Wilber
I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
~ Ted Shawn
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.
~ Michael Foot
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.
~ Deepak Chopra
The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.
~ Thomas Berry
Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.
~ Cleveland Sellers
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
~ Craig Shirley
The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.
~ Martina Navratilova
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
~ Noam Chomsky
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
~ Tammy Bruce
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.
~ Vivian Gornick
...he walked up and down through life.
~ Charles Dickens
One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
~ Cara Black