Quotes About Motion

I do not travel. I take two steps always.

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Everyone prefers to continue their existence as a mind and a self, no matter what pain it causes them, no matter how false and unreal they might be, than to face the quite obvious reality and being only a body set in motion by this mindless, soulless, and selfless force which he designated the shadow, the darkness.

I sat on the bank, holding the stone, and tried to list to myself the motions that were at that moment acting upon it: the Earth's 700-miles-per-hour spin around its axis, its 67,000-miles-per-hour orbit about the sun, its slow precessional straightening tilt within inertial space, and, containing all of that, the galaxy's own inestimable movement outward in the deep night of space.

Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.

Since, then, man cannot make principles, from whence did he gain a knowledge of them, so as to be able to apply them, not only to things on earth, but to ascertain the motion of bodies so immensely distant from him as all the heavenly bodies are? From whence, I ask, could he gain that knowledge, but from the study of the true theology?

The motion of our praise must be like the motion of our pulse, which beats as long as life lasts.

Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates

actually my chair is glued by gravity to a spinning ball that's hurtling around the Sun at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour. So I'm not in the same place at all. I'm 67,000 miles away from where I was sitting an hour ago! Or am I?

Chase scenes normally just have to be exciting and, you know, not a lot of emotion you need to go through. It's just about getting from A to B with as much excitement as you can.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.

The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling themselves against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

There wasn't a trace of thrusters now.

Vomiting in null gravity wouldn't be fun.

whoever approaches his goal dances

The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.

for a thing once set in motion has no ending in this world until the last witness has passed