Moving Quotes

8564 quotes by 5015 authors

Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is… — Werner Erhard
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to… — Hal Linden
I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to… — Ayelet Waldman
We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open… — Bernard Nathanson
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative. — Seth Godin
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but… — Stanley Bing
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses. — Pete Rose
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.... — Satchel Paige
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from… — Teju Cole
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.… — Edward Abbey
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) — Martin Amis
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then… — Kazuo Ishiguro
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance… — Benjamin Franklin
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the… — Orson Scott Card
We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go… — Ray Bradbury

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