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Quotes About Movement

Maybe it's a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns -- what you want to do, not what you want to be.
~ Jeff Tweedy
La vida es como andar en bicicleta. Para mantener el equilibrio, tienes que seguir moviéndote.
~ einstein, albert
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
~ Elaine Scarry
La massa ha bisogno di una direzione. Essa è in movimento e muove verso qualcosa. La direzione comune a tutti gli appartenenti rinforza la sensazione di eguaglianza.
~ Elias Canetti
The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.
~ Elias Chacour
I was to give up everything and go with him to join the struggle. The Movement needed fresh recruits and reinforcements. It needed young men who were willing to offer it their futures. The sum of their futures would be the freedom of Israel, the future of Palestine.
~ Elie Wiesel
There was the sheer Antarctic landscape, and the mind moving across it like a brush on canvas, until the brush was laid aside, and the snow buried it.
~ Elizabeth Arthur
elevator door opened and people poured out. Bustling, well dressed, Oriental.
~ Elizabeth Benedict
I LIKE WHEN YOU WALK far enough that a kind of relaxation happens and you can be inside the rhythm of your feet. Your brain shifts like a car; you settle down, look around, and feel ah. In a more slow-motion way, you see where you are. And where I am is outside and free, on a summer day. There are times you know
~ Elizabeth Berg
When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig. She
~ Elizabeth Berg
The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Qualquer movimento é melhor do que a inércia, pois a inspiração sempre será atraída para o movimento.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle...
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He was a being of action and vitality, and when he moved, when he smiled, he became almost impossible to resist.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
strange shape appeared, moving deliberately across a nearby section of their old floe.
~ Alfred Lansing
Unless there was a radical change in the northerly movement of the pack
~ Alfred Lansing
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We move from one invisibility to another.
~ Ali Smith
No era viejo, ella había acertado. Nadie verdaderamente viejo se sentaría con las piernas cruzadas o abrazándose las rodillas de ese modo. Los viejos solo podían sentarse como si los hubiese paralizado una pistola paralizante).
~ Ali Smith
Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
~ Alice Fulton
This is my heart, or is it yours, I move within.
~ Alice Notley
I was always pushed towards this place. Or backwards.
~ Alice Notley
I'm so sticky with Fate that I can hardly move for fear of it. Maybe the point is that you can always see or feel it coming. The beginning and the unraveling at the same time, you see. You need to get slightly ahead.
~ Alice Notley
or if I stand if I move one hand I hear the hiss of flowers closing their eyelids
~ Alice Oswald