Quotes About Motion

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The time is my vehicle & the light is my fuel.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't.

the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility...It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.

in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.

And you you bitch no irritating questions re love and permanence only an unrolling lifetime here between your rocking thighs and the semblance of motion

And sometimes she would dream again of being Namakaokahai'i, her waves rolling across burled coral beds, scattering moonlight, cresting higher and higher the farther she traveled over the reef. She was a colossus of water and motion soaring toward the black crescent of 'Awahuua Bay, her soul perched on the curling lip of the wave, riding it in the only way she could now; she felt the mana, the power in her waves, felt the rumble in her ocean depths.....

splashed amidst a pillow-fight of pigeons

Stars, rocks and rivers are not sentient. They move, but do not act. They do not seek opportunities or avoid threats. They do not feel or think. If they do, we do not know, as they cannot express themselves, or at least we cannot fathom their responses. They do not seem to experience death, as they do not demonstrate any struggle for life. Even

Things in rest tend to remain in rest. Things in motion tend to remain in motion." - Practice