Motion Quotes
1040 quotes by 798 authors
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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
— Arthur Eddington
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You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
— Brande Roderick
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Chance favors those in motion.
— James H. Austin
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When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense…
— Mary Meeker
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But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
— Xenophanes
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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
— Plato
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Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and…
— Socrates
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with…
— Leo Lionni
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of…
— Leon Trotsky
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It's beautiful, it's poetry in motion.
— Joe Teti
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A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier…
— Uwe Boll
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.…
— Fernando Pessoa
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For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them…
— Maimonides
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The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any…
— Meg Wolitzer
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At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human…
— Egon Schiele
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only…
— John Lothrop Motley
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