Motion Quotes

1040 quotes by 798 authors

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to… — Zora Neale Hurston
I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one… — John Swartzwelder
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets… — Denise Levertov
I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways. — Jennifer Crusie
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on… — Joyce Carol Oates
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I… — Rene Descartes
I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I… — Jodi Picoult
All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still. — Jerome Lawrence
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. — Kay Ryan
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this… — Gary Paulsen
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk… — Sarah Dessen
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess… — Suzanne Collins
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as… — Baruch Spinoza
A motion to adjourn is always in order. — Robert A. Heinlein
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the… — William Faulkner
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. — Anne Carson
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced… — Lois Lowry

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