Movement Quotes
2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors
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The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection…
— John Ralston Saul
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Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people…
— John Ralston Saul
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The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
— Don Roff
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Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
— E E Cummings
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it…
— Jack London
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There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
— Doris Lessing
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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
— Blaise Pascal
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I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.
— Dave Eggers
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She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart…
— Henry James
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. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.
— Shannon Hale
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The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its…
— Robert Hughes
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But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit,…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and…
— Frank Herbert
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Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated…
— Huston Smith
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The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
— Bruce Lee
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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
— Charles Bukowski
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity…
— Michel Foucault
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A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the…
— Jim Goad
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I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
— Plutarch
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