Quotes About Motion

Movement is the essence of life.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Any action is better than no action at all.

It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Emotion is energy in motion.

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something!

Government requires motion, perhaps even more than wisdom. And there is a constant temptation to depend on those who know how to keep it moving, rather than demanding that it stay on any particular course.

The sigil-sorcerer need not concern himself with the question 'is this desire wilful?' We have to accept the fact that we don't always know the nature and motion of will. In a sense, sigil magick is a form of feedback: the desire arises from the deep, is recognized, sigilized, cast into the deep again, and finds fulfilment from that agency.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

because what goes up must come down

Huge up-draughts – invisible forces – tossed our little plane like it was an insect.

It's okay to applaud the laws of physics.

It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

Besides, the sundry motions of your Spheares, So sundry waies and fashions as clerkes faine, "Some in short space, and some in longer yeares; What is the same but alteration plaine? Onely the starrie skie doth still remaine: Yet do the Starres and Signes therein still moue, And euen itself is mov'd, as wizards saine. But ALL THAT MOUETH, DOTH MUTATION LOUE: Therefore both you and them to me I subiect proue.

And suddenly…there was a wind. No, not a wind. A blur of motion… Bending the steel of their weapons and changing the very course of the might river below. Even before the bystanders freed themselves from the cable car, they know. We all did. We knew… and remembered.

Everything is already moving so very fast, but you need a great deal more speed than this to escape the earth's gravitational pull. Seven miles per second. More fuel, please.

The old Jack's yardstick: if it moves, salute it! If it doesn't, paint it!

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.