Movement Quotes · Page 45

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Bill Keller

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

— Twyla Tharp

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

— Carol Tavris

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

— Mary Jane Patterson

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

— Joseph James Ettor

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

— Alexander Calder

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported…

— Murray Bookchin

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I…

— Yoko Ono

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's…

— David O. Russell

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched…

— Ariel Levy

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not…

— Patrick Kavanagh

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an…

— Vera Brittain

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there…

— Larry Kramer

What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a…

— Anne Applebaum

There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that…

— Al Franken

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the…

— Paul Strand

Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,…

— Jean Gebser

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged…

— Eugene V. Debs

So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Samuel Bowers

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

— Jo Johnson

[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

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

— Pico Iyer

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

— Chuck Inglish

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

— Atul Gawande

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Marisa Tomei

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

— Bukayo Saka

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

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

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

— William Klein