Best Motions Quotes
160 Motions quotes by 136 unique authors
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian…
— Gore Vidal
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In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus…
— Peter Fenn
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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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I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people…
— Ross Macdonald
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The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as…
— Emmanuel Mounier
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The soul has many motions, body one.
— Theodore Roethke
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You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.
— Kristine Lilly
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If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose…
— Francis Schaeffer
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There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.
— Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
— A. R. Ammons
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same…
— Pierre Charron
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It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of…
— Charles Lyell
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The…
— Max Lerner
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the…
— Lee Bolman
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[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking…
— Sam Keen
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Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going…
— Bethany Hamilton
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If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of…
— Harold S. Kushner
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I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest…
— Gustave Moreau
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You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why...…
— Marita Bonner
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Never confuse motions with action.
— Ernest Hemingway
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This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are…
— William Shakespeare
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One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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