Movement Quotes

2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist,… — Sarah Waters
Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on… — Tan Twan Eng
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars,… — John Muir
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her… — Elizabeth Smart
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by… — George Eliot
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every… — Virginia Woolf
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… — Isak Dinesen
People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those… — Tom Robbins
I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes… — Veronica Roth
Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't… — Christopher McDougall
Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again… — Megan Whalen Turner
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life: a constellation of vital phenomenaâ€”organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra
Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air. — William Wharton
She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures… — Michael Cunningham
I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But… — Maureen Johnson
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom… — Arthur Koestler

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