Quotes About Motion

The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.

Early next morning there was a sound as of chains being drawn roughly overhead; the steady heart of the Euphrosyne slowly ceased to beat; and Helen, poking her nose above deck, saw a stationary castle upon a stationary hill. They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetually, the same waves kept returning and washing against the sides of the ship.

A slight but perceptible wave seemed to roll beneath the floor; then it sank; then another came, more perceptible. Lights slid right across the uncurtained window. The ship gave a loud melancholy moan.

All night men and women seethed up and down the well-known beats.

Time flaps on the mast--

But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?

A bowling ball rolled through his head, diagonally from nape to temple; it paused and started back

Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.")

There's April in her hair. Motion and stillness. Wings and earth. There are tears, and there is... friendship. There is velvet, and traveling, and distance, bones and blood, summer coming again as it always does, love.

Thwack! It sailed through the air and disappeared into the

Their height exaggerated movement; even in relatively calm water, they tossed the men about like toy figures.

creating earthquakes, moving mountains.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Above her the moon was coin-round, sharp and perfect. Beneath her the boat rocked so gently that she could hardly feel it's motion. Looking up at the sky, she felt as if she were floating in space, completely untethered. She could not believe that anything was impossible.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might.

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

streets, came nearer and nearer.

The burst with which the carriage started out of the village and up the rise beyond, was soon checked by the steepness of the hill. Gradually, it subsided to a foot pace, swinging and lumbering upward among the many sweet scents of a summer night.

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.

Never confuse movement with action. —Ernest Hemingway

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so that the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

I was discovering that if you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.