Quotes About Motion

The true self is always in motion - like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

In reality, there are many little circumstances too often omitted by injudicious historians, from which events of the utmost importance arise. The world may indeed be considered as a vast machine, in which the great wheels are originally set in motion by those which are very minute, and almost imperceptible to any but the strongest eyes. Thus

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness.

Keep making the movements of life.

Why should a set of people have been put in motion, on such a scale and with such an air of being equipped for a profitable journey, only to break down without an accident, to stretch themselves in the wayside dust without a reason?

One went through the vain motions, but it was mostly a waste of life.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Vives como una roca feliz en medio del océano: estás fijo, mientras que todo lo que te rodea está en movimiento turbulento. Estás fijo en una realidad que permite la idea de que nada está fijo, de que hasta la roca más feliz y fuerte se disolverá un día totalmente y será tan fluida como el océano del que nació.

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wise Round their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky that I don't get car sick when I am reading and I can spend really long journeys immersed in a book!

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

I walk. I do the treadmill; I walk around the mall. I do a little crunches with my stomach, not that much. Just enough to get the engine going cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha! Vroooommmmm.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death.

If you do nothing, nothing will get done and nothing will change.

Andrew Motion. Keats. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2001