Movement Quotes
2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors
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You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that…
— Alex Sanchez
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So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you…
— Thomas Friedman
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Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death…
— Tao Lin
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nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available…
— Carol Shields
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In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down…
— Jack London
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Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans…
— Louis de Bernieres
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He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring,…
— Jack London
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
— Oscar Levant
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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
— Charlotte Bronte
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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent…
— Patrick O'Brian
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He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I…
— Charlotte Bronte
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
— Carl Jung
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Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to…
— Andre Breton
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
— Alan Lightman
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate…
— Alice Sebold
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He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far…
— Patrick O'Brian
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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
— Aldous Huxley
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Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is…
— Martin Heidegger
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The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in…
— John Dewey
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An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal…
— Richard Louv
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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty…
— Simone Weil
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