Quotes About Motion

When you travel more slowly than the speed of light, you are moving mostly through time; if you were to travel faster than light (which you aren't about to do), you would be moving mostly through space.

a straight line through spacetime, if you like—is the path of longest time between two events.

Extraneous motion decreases the time elapsed between two events in spacetime, whereas it increases the distance traveled between two points in space.

É mais fácil voar alto do que baixo (...) é mais fácil voar depressa do que devagar.

She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.

Almighty God created a dancer as a reflection of artistry in motion

Dance less in motion and more in spirit; awaken the dreamer within

We are perpetually invited to participate more consciously in the dep motion of faith, learning to wonder in a larger frame and awakening to bigger questions and larger dreams" p49

the motion was authentic, it was from another place, it was planetary, it was model-of-the-solar- systemic.

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.

It was as if life had been suspended and she had lost the power to bring it into motion again.

The labor of writing poems, of working with thought and emotion in the encasement (or is it the wings?) of language, is strange to nature, for we are first of all creatures of motion.

who knows what it dreamed of in the first springs of its life, escaping the cottontail's teeth and everything dangerous else. Who knows when supreme patience took hold, and the wind's wandering among its leaves was enough of motion, of travel.

Come on, let's go watch!" Annie said. She started down the rope ladder.

Suddenly, the front of the ship dipped down into the sea. Deck chairs started to slide past Jack and Annie.

a child fairer than a pictured cherub - a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

I ran like a thing that runs.

She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.

The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Life...had been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream "Why?" and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation?