Best Motions Quotations

160 Motions quotes by 136 unique authors

Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. — John D. Barrow
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your… — Michael Azerrad
I have done research about people who think they're doing movements and people - like Madonna and professional dancers - who are actually 'performing' movements.… — Tracy Anderson
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear… — Wilhelm Dilthey
One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought? — Friedrich Engels
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. — Bill Ayers
In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the… — Meinrad Craighead
I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in… — Robert Boyle
If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God… — George MacDonald
Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the… — Isaac Newton
There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered… — Thomas Browne
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen,… — Alexander Pope
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to… — Charles de Lint
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes… — Marcus Aurelius
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy… — John Dryden
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions… — Nicolaus Copernicus
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? — John Donne
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. — D. H. Lawrence
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. — W. Somerset Maugham
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for… — Bryant H. McGill
You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above… — Matt Taibbi
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading… — Pierre Trudeau
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. — Tom Robbins

Who Wrote These Motions Quotes

136 authors contributed a total of 160 Motions Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Motions Quotations

More Ways to Read Motions Quotes

Who Wrote These Motions Quotes