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Quotes About Motion

On Harlan's World, streetlife has a stripped-back elegance to it, an economy of motion and gesture that feels almost like choreography if you're not used to it. I grew up with it, so the effect doesn't register until it's not there any more.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. Bu it is not quite so slow as a pushcart.
~ K?b? Abe
Wordsworth had discerned a 'spirit' which was at one and the same time immanent in and distinct from natural phenomena: 'A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought And rolls through all things.
~ Karen Armstrong
Normalmente el destino pende de la oscilação de un péndulo.
~ Karen Ranney
Jeder Schritt wirklicher Bewegung ist wichtiger als ein Dutzend Programme.
~ Karl Marx
Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus
~ Kate Atkinson
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.
~ Francis William Newman
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
~ Henry Adams
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
~ Guy Vanderhaeghe
For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
~ Lucretius
The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.
~ Harry Hooton
Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.
~ Henry Vaughan
Everything is energy in motion.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
Nothing is more important than the moving image; except for my cup of coffee in the morning.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
~ Jesse Owens
Ideas without action are worthless.
~ Harvey Mackay
Activity is not output.
~ Andy Grove
If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
~ Brad Bird
Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.
~ Eugen Sandow