Movable Quotes

24 quotes by 20 authors

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of… — Annie Besant
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
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 old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to… — Chanakya
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions — Dean Kamen
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in… — Benjamin De Casseres
Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and… — Immanuel Kant
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. — Angela Carter
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese… — Winston Churchill
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating… — Thomas Carlyle
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. — Benjamin Franklin
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. — H. L. Mencken
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. — Gene Fowler
Its never possible taking trust to the next stronghold yet its originality is movable — Meekness Tapera
Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving. — Sue Woodman
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it… — Ernest Hemingway

Who Wrote These Movable Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 24 Movable Quotes as follows: