Movement Quotes

2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement. — Jen Lancaster
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so… — Helen Humphreys
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement,… — Barack Obama
I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. — Craig Thompson
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. — James Joyce
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much… — Douglas Adams
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing… — Katherine Anne Porter
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion… — Margaret Mead
It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and… — John Bingham
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession… — H.G. Wells
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!"… — Tom Robbins
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that… — John Dewey
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. — Eric Hoffer
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of… — Graham Greene
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. — Leo Tolstoy
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. — John Keats
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as… — Terry Tempest Williams
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses… — P.J. O'Rourke
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on… — Karl Marx
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too. — Jim Thompson

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