Quotes About Motion

In quei giorni e in quei luoghi, poco dopo il passaggio de fronte, un vento alto spirava sulla faccia della terra: il mondo intorno a noi sembrava ritornato al Caos primigenio, e brulicava di esemplari umani scaleni, difettivi, abnormi; e ciascuno di essi si agitava in moti ciechi o deliberati, in ricerca affannosa della propria sede, della propria sfera, come praticamente si narra delle particelle dei quattro elementi nelle cosmogonie degli antichi.

Solo i sobbalzi del vagone ci impedivano di scivolare in un sonno che il freddo avrebbe reso mortale.

he knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all.

He waited a second, then made an abrupt flapping motion with his hands. Well? he demanded. I'm a vampire, you silly woman. Ask me in! We're wanted felons, you know!

Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast

world is sensation. We drift in an ocean of sensory stimuli: motion, color, texture, shape, heat, cold, natural symphonies of sound, an infinite number of scents, tastes beyond the human ability to catalogue. Nothing but sensation endures. Living things all die. Great cities do not last.

I feel like I've been sliding all day.

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

We whizzed along down through the skeleton remnants of Iowa.

in his magisterial Modern Times, the secular West wrongly applied Einstein's theories of relativity to morality: Not only were time and motion relative, so were good and evil.

He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing.

bedframe shuddering with the force of the struggle taking place

We jolted along for a couple of hours in this manner, but the pain grew steadily worse, keeping me shifting in the saddle incessantly.

He was overcome with a sudden sense of premonition, though he did not believe in premonition. He felt things in motion around him, things that he did not understand and could not control, things settling of themselves into an ordained and appointed position, like the revolving spheres of his father's orrery—and he wished to protest this state of affairs, but could not.

I'm a fast driver.

Radio is for driving.

Life itself is energy,and energy creates the flow of life that cannot be contained.Energy is ceaselessly in motion.You,I and all phenomena are ultimately manifestations of energy.

se levantó sobre sus patas y volvió a brincar hacia

I nervi ubbidiscono all'anima, le braccia all'idea, e dove non vi sono né idee né anima, o intorpidisce il letargo o la vita stultizza.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What goes up must come down.

and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction