Movement Quotes
2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors
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Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release…
— Janette Oke
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There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to…
— Mary E. Pearson
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You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs,…
— Kiran Desai
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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it…
— Ivan Turgenev
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In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can…
— Ian Mcewan
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...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts.…
— Paulo Coelho
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Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.
— Parker J. Palmer
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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people…
— Howard Zinn
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The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
— Pico Iyer
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Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble,…
— Lauren Oliver
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Welfare reforms and the whole “happy†exploitation movement are not “baby steps.†They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
— Gary L. Francione
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I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious,…
— Bede Griffiths
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When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall,…
— Daphne du Maurier
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There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is…
— Walpola Rahula
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Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly…
— Anthony Horowitz
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This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement…
— Justin Torres
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