Quotes with motion

  • I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
  • Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
  • All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
  • The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
  • O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
  • Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
  • As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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  • George Meredith A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Robert Collier All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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  • Wayne Dyer Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Allow motion to equal emotion.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Campbell Brown As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Hall But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
    A Summons to New Orleans
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • John Sterling Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Dorothea Brande Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Arthur Eddington Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Bhagat Singh Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat
    I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
    Jail Note Book of Shahid Bhagat Singh
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ben Stein Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
    Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • William Wordsworth Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
    Definitions - Scholium
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Ezra Pound I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic - I mean my motion.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Andrew Motion I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
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  • Camille Paglia Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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