Quotes About Motion

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

Every act waves action and action defines the reaction.

Neither before nor after; step and move with time.

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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

We are flying over a ball of fire.

Tú levantas torbellinos a tu paso.

The train came into sight, rumbling closer, bringing the feeling of aliveness and plenitude inherent to incoming trains.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

Music more aptly represents human emotional processes because music, like life, appears to be in constant motion.

Neppure un atomo si moveva, nel silenzio grave della notte.

Si hay ciclista, no monta la bicicleta como si fuera una de esas maquinas brutales de los gimnasio, sino que se pasea demoradamente en ella, inclinado sobre el manillar, mirando a su alrededor, acompasado su pedaleo al ritmo apaciguado de las cosas.

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

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Give me a lever and I will move the earth

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Wisdom The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

although the universe itself isn't a conscious entity, it possesses the raw materials that, when properly set into motion, create consciousness. It has the ability to create intelligent life, which is capable of understanding the universe... It can know itself indirectly