Motion Quotes

1040 quotes by 798 authors

All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral. — Walter Russell
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. — Octavio Paz
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and… — Immanuel Kant
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it… — James Clerk Maxwell
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety. — John Donne
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. — Aristotle
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… — Thomas Jefferson
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never… — Leonardo da Vinci
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as… — H. Richard Niebuhr
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. — Oscar Micheaux
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the… — Natalie Babbitt
Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an… — T.H. White
Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. — Nathaniel Branden
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them! — Viktor Schauberger
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were,… — Jonathan Raban
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and… — William Shakespeare

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