Quotes About Motion

Il primo motore è la cosa più perfetta che c'è, è pensiero che pensa a se stesso; dunque esso muove come ciò che è amato, cioè secondo il fine, mentre tutte le altre cose muovono essendo mosse, cioè secondo la causa efficiente. Il mondo lo ama per la sua perfezione e non per la sua bontà, e lui stesso è immobile perchè, essendo perfetto, non ha nulla da attuare.

Happiness is a state of activity.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially.

We physicists, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion—which is indeed made plain by induction.

There never was a time when there was not motion.

Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year.

You can't have action without reaction.

No such thing as centrifugal force. It's an engineer's phantom. There's only inertia.

In less than two hours its direction of motion had swung through more than ninety degrees, and it had given a final, almost contemptuous proof of its total lack of interest in all the worlds whose peace of mind it had so rudely disturbed.

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Try to remember with description that you must never just let it lie there; nothing in your story should ever be static unless you have a very good reason indeed for keeping your reader still; the essence of the story is motion.

Most plates move relatively slowly—the North American Plate, for example, is shifting westward at about twenty millimeters a year, somewhat less than the rate at which human fingernails grow. The Pacific Plate is, by contrast, something of a speed demon: it moves ten times as rapidly, and in a habitual northwesterly direction, covering something like two centimeters each year.

When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or by several conflicting ones, the disturbance is the same.

What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?

It's funny how life works like a seesaw: Some things go up while others plunge down.

Every step I take, I am alive. I am Life.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Dr. Wanda Bonet-Gascot