Quotes About Motion

I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.

Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There's heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

In the hypnotic liquidity of the atmosphere all motion slows into choreography, all people on the street move as if suspended in a precarious emulsion, and there seems only a technical distinction between the quick and the dead

A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

The world spins, but not around you.

Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you're not in control, doesn't it? I should've considered that.

I know the value of living in the moment. For when you live in the moment, you live forever. Our lives are like the shifting sands on the beach, always changing, always in motion. And if we don't seize the beauty of each moment, we risk losing it forever. That is why it is important to cherish every moment, to hold it close, and to let it shape us into who we are meant to be." (p. 7)

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Any kick makes you quick.

Fast never saw us go.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

All is flux, nothing stays still

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

To the passionate language of Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain equally passionate:--What! has not Being mind? and is not Being capable of being known? and, if this is admitted, then capable of being affected or acted upon?--in motion, then, and yet not wholly incapable of rest. Already we have been compelled to attribute opposite determinations to Being. And the answer to the difficulty about Being may be equally the answer to the difficulty about Not-being.