Motion Quotes

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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do… — Todd Solondz
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a… — Samuel Johnson
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast… — Saint Augustine
If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves. — Gabrielle Roth
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened… — Thomas Jefferson
The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been… — Leonardo Bianchi
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the… — John of Damascus
An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So… — Knute Rockne
There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion. — Christopher Smart
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very… — Henry Oldenburg
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Richard Dixon Oldham
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which… — Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann

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