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Quotes About Motion

Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.
~ Steven Storm
We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.
~ Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade
For eternity, time is standing still. In the expanding space, we are moving
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.
All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)
~ Reza Assadi
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.
~ Bobby Green
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
~ Terry Pratchett
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
~ Carl Sandburg
The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.
~ Kim Hyesoon
I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.
~ Jim Thorpe
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
~ Brooks Atkinson
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
~ Mike May
The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.
~ Irving Thalberg
But the frontier in this meaning was a process of becoming, not of being, and hence substituted motion for structure as its end. Motion as a substitute for structure is possible only so long as there is unlimited room to move in. When confined without the discipline provided by an ideal, such social motion produces aimlessness or chaos—or perhaps the final ordering of some utopia.
~ William Appleman Williams
A poem is contained movement.
~ William Everson
A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
~ William Godwin
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself.
~ William Kennedy
It is a classic example of the deceptiveness of the senses: the Earth looks and feels as though it is at rest beneath our feet, even though it is really rotating. As for the celestial sphere, despite being visible in broad daylight (as the sky), it does not exist at all.
~ David Deutsch
But it's crucial that we set the process in motion. One thing that will quickly become clear is that the prevalent 'big picture' of history – shared by modern-day followers of Hobbes and Rousseau alike – has almost nothing to do with the facts. But to begin making sense of the new information that's now before our eyes, it is not enough to compile and sift vast quantities of data. A conceptual shift is also required.
~ David Graeber
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.
~ David Halberstam
The beginning of motion in matter itself is as conceivable a priori as its communication from mind and intelligence.
~ David Hume
The ultimate Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. Human actions, therefore, either can have no moral turpitude at all, as proceeding from so good a cause; or if they have any turpitude, they must involve our Creator in the same guilt, while he is acknowledged to be their ultimate cause and author.
~ David Hume
My point is that the actual height of the CoG is only a concern when you are balancing at a stop or pushing the bike out of the garage. In motion, front-end geometry has a lot more to do with how the bike balances. And
~ David L. Hough
the sleeper shark can live to the age of four hundred years, because it exists in slow motion.
~ David Lagercrantz