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Quotes About Motion

What's the work for emotion in our life? I'll say emotion gives the motion in life. If you don't have emotion, then you will act like robot. You can't feel anything. But we must feel everything from our mind. If any act doesn't touch our mind then how could we live?
~ Salman Aziz
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
~ Salman Rushdie
But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
~ Salvador Plascencia
But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own. If I could walk into the house and say, "Froggy, I'm sorry I left." If I could hug him and unbutton his shirt and pick the petals from his hair. If I could do that, there would be no reason for me to fight this war.
~ Salvador Plascencia
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
~ Sam Keen
Golf is played with the arms
~ Sam Snead
Most days it feels like I am watching a movie where the sound isn't in sync, the speed is all wrong. Either I'm moving too quickly and the world is dripping along, or the world is moving too quickly, cosmic, and I'm oozing like a slug barely able to pull my own weight. It's best if I keep moving because if I stopped and stood still people would see me shaking.
~ Samantha Schutz
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
~ Samuel Johnson
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
~ Samuel Johnson
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O the one life within us and abroad,Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,Rhythm in all thought, and joyance everywhere—Methinks, it should have been impossibleNot to love all things in a world so filled.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our purpose, like a ball, was designed to have more momentum than to be at a standstill.
~ Sanita Belgrave
if you have your film set at the right speed
~ Sara Rosett
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
~ Albert Einstein
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
~ Ovid
We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
~ Spider Robinson
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
~ Aristotle
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.
~ Morris Kline
Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.
~ Friedrich Schiller
At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.
~ George Leonard
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.
~ Hermann Bondi
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
~ Anne Carson