Quotes About Motion

It was as if the day's whole motion had merely described a great circle that was always, inevitably, going to lead him back to where he had started.

Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.

the wipers beating at the rain like a fool waving in a parade.

Le gomme dell'auto erano così lisce che si poteva vedere quasi l'aria nelle ruote.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk-we move!

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Life is just an ongoing process.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

If you don't go and do something in life, nothing happens.

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground.

The normal form of motion always involves telos or goal," I say, trying to get a word in edgewise. "Motion involves the transition from an acorn to an oak. Newton made violent motion the paradigm for all motion because it was the perfect description of the actions of William of Orange, the usurper whom the Whigs put on the throne in England. The impetus for all motion now came from without. There was no telos. All motion was a function of human will and intention.

David was having a difficult time understanding that Newton's redefinition of all motion as violent motion was a piece of metaphysical sleight of hand that continued to produce evil consequences, the most evil being the world-wide hegemony of Capitalism.

Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong forever . . . This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping, and very early in the morning in the garden I feel that out house is the future as well as the past.