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Quotes About Motion

I build my cars to go, not to stop.
~ Unknown
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
~ Abraham Zapruder
As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.
~ Max Lucado
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
~ Jean-Jacques Annaud
En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
~ Peter David
And then I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.
~ Unknown
Para que algo suceda, algún suceso tiene que modificarse o algo que hasta el momento estaba inmóvil tiene que moverse.
~ Peter Handke
The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by God.
~ Peter Kreeft
Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.
~ Peter Kreeft
Something occurs, in the motion of the present, but it's already over. Because even then, even as she watched, she was already moving away from it, already thinking about how years from now she might tell someone about this.
~ Peter Orner
Herr Konsul, sorry to take your time." A man's voice. The blood in Reiss' veins instantly stopped its motion.
~ Philip K. Dick
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
~ Philip K. Dick
We and our environments form such interconnected cluster systems that mutually process information and alter it while exchanging it; we are all (humans) like a vast compound eye which shows a repetition of the motion of a single object but each cell reflecting slightly differently. (p.155)
~ Philip K. Dick
The noise and stirrings represented authentic life. Some people found all this evil; he did not. People who thought that were wrong. The restless, roving bands of males who sought God knew what—they themselves didn't know: their striving was the genuine primal under-urge of protoplasmic material itself. This irritable ceaseless motion had once carried life right out of the sea and onto land;
~ Philip K. Dick
La partícula que se mueve de tal forma que nos impide predecir la posición que ocupará en un segundo determinado
~ Philip K. Dick
Motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe." Another voice said, "Time." He knew the answer to that. Time is round.
~ Philip K. Dick
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
~ Philip Roth
Your motion is still denied, but I just want you to know I'm very impressed with your creativity.
~ David Gerrold
Absence is all existence seen as one undifferentiated tissue (reality, as we have seen, prior to our names), while Presence is that same tissue seen in its differentiated forms, the ten thousand things (reality differentiated by our names). And it should also be emphasized that both terms, Absence and Presence, are primarily verbal in Chinese: hence, that tissue of reality is seen as verbal, rather than the static nominal: a tissue that is alive and in motion.
~ David Hinton
But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.
~ David Levithan
We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
~ David Levithan
He is tired, but he's free. He is living, because he's in motion.
~ David Levithan
But Jewish history is far more than the static tale of antisemitism. It is also a story of constant motion that kept Jews lithe
~ David N. Myers