Movement Quotes
2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors
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Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last."…
— Billy Graham
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America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement.…
— Martha Graham
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The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a…
— Norman Mailer
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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
— Anton Chekhov
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and…
— Joseph de Maistre
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In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach…
— Ruth Benedict
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For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his…
— William Saroyan
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A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly…
— Nelson Mandela
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not…
— Paul Hawken
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Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and…
— Huey Newton
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A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed…
— Ernst Mach
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The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their…
— Christopher McDougall
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Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an…
— Arianna Huffington
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Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public…
— Jonathan Raban
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My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
— Tom Morello
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I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away,…
— Amelie Nothomb
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In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the…
— Jo Nesbo
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I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened…
— Paul Nurse
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The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries…
— Taslima Nasrin
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It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect…
— Jamie Oliver
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See and feel who you are. Love like you have never loved before. The practial point is to live and enjoy from where you are.…
— Robert Young
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Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement…
— John William Draper
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...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable,…
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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