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Quotes About Motion

For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete Knowledge then He is Complete Non-Motion, which is Non-Life, which is Death. Therefore, if there is such a God of Fullness of Being, we would worship Death, the Father.
~ Robert Penn Warren
I thought God cannot be Fullness of Being. For Life is Motion.----- For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete Knowledge then He is Complete Non-Motion, which is Non-Life, which is Death. Therefore, if there is such a God of Fullness of Being, we would worship Death, the Father.
~ Robert Penn Warren
for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The word 'emotion' stands for 'energy in motion.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Tindakan selalu mengalahkan ketiadaan tindakan.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Emotions are what make us human. The word 'emotion' stands for 'energy in motion.' Be truthful about your emotions and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rebecca Dew was waving it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
As he grew accustomed to the dark, his mind seemed to stop functioning and he could no longer keep his eyes open. Was he still walking, or had he stopped? All he sensed was a wavelike motion in his head, like black ocean swells; the darkness attached itself to his mind, unsettled, flustered, confused
~ Lao She
What is it that keeps us in motion? Not seldom, the fear that the bitterness of the past will catch up with us. The bitterness over all missed opportunities. Bitterness at being who you are, and still not more like yourself.
~ Lars Gustafsson
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! —LEWIS CARROLL
~ Laura Dave
Custard began jumping up on me, like he had springs in his tiny legs.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
So much motion, continues he, (for he was very corpulent)—is so much unquietness; and so much of rest, by the same analogy, is so much of heaven. Now, I (being very thin) think differently; and that so much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy—and that to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil—
~ Laurence Sterne
The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The world turns upside down every day.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
~ Isaac Newton
What goes up must come down.
~ Isaac Newton
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
~ Alessandro Volta
The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
~ Zeno of Elea
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
~ Howard Nemerov
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
~ Charles Kettering
Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
~ James Clerk Maxwell
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.
~ Michael Jordan
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
~ Isaac Newton