Movement Quotes · Page 52

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

— Deborah Jowitt

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

— Aime Martin

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

— Anonymous

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

— Caitlyn Jenner

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and…

— Bayazid Bastami

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

— Carol S. Dweck

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

— Marisa Tomei

The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

“Going in the company of negative people is just like having thick muddy soil underfoot... They will only draw you back if…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really…

— Zach Braff

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist…

— Jonah Goldberg

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time…

— Oswald Spengler

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring…

— T. S. Eliot

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be…

— Robert Herjavec

As what you first are moves in the context of form, you have real reflection within that form, real reflection of what…

— John de Ruiter

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a…

— Henri Nouwen

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war…

— John Dufresne

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think…

— Ai-jen Poo

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like…

— Alan Moore

The Tea Party was regularly smeared in media as a violent, bigoted, 'astroturf' movement hellbent on opposing the first black president because…

— Katie Pavlich

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating…

— Harlan Lane

People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men…

— Dustin Lance Black

Laca knows my movement and where I am. It's so fun to play with him.

— Bukayo Saka

Free movement of people makes it easier for our universities to attract the best talent.

— Jo Johnson

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

— Samuel Bowers

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

— Jerry Seinfeld

The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.

— Joseph James Ettor

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

— Mary Jane Patterson

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

— Cesar Chavez

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

— Glenn Beck

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

— Atul Gawande

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the…

— Charles Darwin

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

— Holly Near

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

— Chuck Inglish

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

— Pico Iyer

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

— Bill Keller

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

— Nikola Tesla