Quotes About Motion

If it's what your body was designed to do, it's probably not bad form. And if the exercise requires you to do something unnatural, you should think twice before doing it.

THE VERY ORDER, DISPOSITION, BEAUTY, CHANGE AND MOTION OF THE WORLD AND OF ALL VISIBLE THINGS SILENTLY PROCLAIM THAT IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN MADE BY GOD. —AUGUSTINE

But in the science of physics, power means something different. Power describes how fast you use energy. For example, it takes the same amount of energy to walk across a football field as it does to run across a football field. But running is faster. Therefore, running has more power. This is the kind of power that makes things happen.

Take this in to them, s'il vous plaît, " Chef Véronique's large ruddy hand trembled slightly as she motioned to the trays. "And bring out the pots already there. They'll want fresh tea." She knew this was a lie. What the family wanted they could never have again. But tea was all she could give them. So she made it. Over and over.

It seemed like a coincidence, but in Gamache's experience, almost everything that happened was the end result of a series of apparently unconnected events. Often set in motion years earlier. Remove one, and the thing did not happen.

All things must needs be borne on through the calm void, moving at equal rate with unequal weights.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.

the dead still obey the laws of physics, don't they?

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

It was not a wave but a smooth rolling swell that seemed to come up from the deeps, as if something vast down there had stirred itself.

Motion causes friction. Make the commitment early!

It's as the old adage says: motion causes friction.

Vows are powerful things, he said. They set things in motion.

Love is like a Swing. It flies up and makes you breathless, then from the very peak of delight you fall down into the void... The HIGHER you swing, The HARDER to STOP.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.

After a lot of laps, you start to get dizzy.

The Thames that goes north, south, east, and west, to finally go east, that seeps to one side and the other as it moves forward, that goes slow as it goes fast, that evaporates into the sky whilst meandering to the sea, is more about motion than about beginnings. If it has a beginning, it is located in a dark inaccessible place. Better study where it goes than where it comes from.