Motion Quotes

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I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion… — Dalai Lama
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a… — Ray Bradbury
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer… — Hilary McKay
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up… — Robert Frost
I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right… — Sarah Dessen
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine.… — Jennifer Weiner
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edmund Burke
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was… — Nicholas Sparks
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and… — Terry Pratchett
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish. — Walt Disney
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward… — Kate Brian
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to… — Bill Bryson
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this… — John Milton
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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