Movement Quotes

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There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a… — Charlotte Bronte
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had… — George Eliot
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. — Muriel Barbery
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy… — Doris Lessing
What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and… — Karl Jaspers
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison… — Alice Sebold
We stare into each other's eyes and softly kiss speaking and saying more with the movement of our lips and the tips of our fingers… — James Frey
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of… — Steven Hall
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form,… — Jack Kornfield
he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about… — Nicholas Sparks
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the… — Eric Hoffer
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those… — Howard Zinn
I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president… — Howard Zinn
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination;… — E E Cummings
sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them… — Hunter S. Thompson
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you,… — R. Scott Bakker
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living… — Maggie Stiefvater
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,… — George Orwell
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the… — Dean Koontz
Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those… — Jandy Nelson

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