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Quotes About Movement

but you were moving on: monotonous vindictive
~ Alice Oswald
there comes a tremor and there comes a pause
~ Alice Oswald
Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
~ Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Only half-aware of the movements of his body, she turned her head to one side and stared up at the ceiling, where she noticed a spider's web.
~ Alifa Rifaat
Unlike the back streets, the road boiled with people.
~ Alison Croggon
I'll tell you the truth, don't think I'm lying: I've to run backwards to keep from flying.
~ Alison Lurie
The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.
~ Alison MacLeod
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
~ Allegra Kent
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."23
~ Allen C. Guelzo
The rest of them never considered time, how it moves both so quickly and so slowly that it's always just beyond your grasp.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.
~ Ally Carter
Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.
~ Ally Carter
There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
~ Alma Guillermoprieto
In the city people are moving down sidewalks, up and down escalators, along aisles; they are stationed in the driver's seat of buses, at gas pumps, computers, and cash registers. There is a low-intensity fear in them. They avoid turning in certain directions, flailing their arms or poking their hands in certain ways. They respect invisible barriers.
~ Alphonso Lingis
Great awakenings did not happen because of the crowds but the committed few.
~ Alvin L. Reid
Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.
~ Amelie Nothomb
La lengua no engaña: largarse rima con salvarse. Si te estás muriendo, lárgate. Si estás sufriendo, muévete. No existe más ley que la del movimiento.
~ Amelie Nothomb
era, sin discusión, la más graciosa: poseía esa maravillosa soltura de movimientos, que es la suprema injusticia de la naturaleza, ya que la gracia se otorga o se deniega en el momento de nacer sin que ningún esfuerzo posterior pueda paliar la ausencia de la misma.
~ Amelie Nothomb
L'esprit ne vole pas, il se déplace sans obstacle, c'est très différent.
~ Amelie Nothomb
El espacio, suprema liberación. Si no fuera así, ¿qué sentido tendría que el mundo fuera tan grande? La lengua no engaña: largarse rima con salvarse. Si te estás muriendo, lárgate. Si estás sufriendo, muévete. No existe más ley que la del movimiento.
~ Amelie Nothomb
El tiempo es una invención del movimiento. Aquel que no se mueve no ve pasar el tiempo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Pojurila sam u krajolik. Oh, kako je divno tr?ati! Prostor osloba?a od svega. Nema te patnje koja se ne može odagnati rasipanjem sebe u svemiru. Zar bi svijet bez razloga bio tako velik? Jezik ima pravo: ute?i zna?i spasiti se. Ako umireš, kreni. Ako patiš, pokreni se. Kretanje je jedini zakon.
~ Amelie Nothomb
largarse rima con salvarse. Si te estás muriendo, lárgate. Si estás sufriendo, muévete. No existe más ley que la del movimiento.
~ Amelie Nothomb
En realidad, Dios era la encarnación de las fuerzas. También la más paradójica de las fuerzas: ¿existe acaso algo más extraño que ese implacable poder que emana de lo que no se mueve?
~ Amelie Nothomb