Moves Quotes
1394 quotes by 1121 authors
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I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us…
— Pope Francis
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I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't…
— Brad Thor
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A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard marl,…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along,…
— Bill Viola
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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human…
— Anna Howard Shaw
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Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous…
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
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The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of…
— Issey Miyake
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
— Fanny Burney
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
— John Rawls
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Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the…
— Anne Michaels
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One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is…
— Oprah Winfrey
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends…
— Alexandre Kojeve
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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only…
— Naomi Wolf
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that…
— John Calvin
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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
— Charles Spurgeon
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In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely…
— Dogen
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Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves…
— Douglas Preston
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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
— Robert Bly
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any…
— Arthur Machen
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