Quotes with motion

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  • Ernest Hemingway Never confuse motion with action.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never mistake motion for action.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • William Wordsworth No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Ben Jonson O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • J. G. Gallimore Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • Blaise Pascal Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Mae West Sex is emotion in motion.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Howard Whitman Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Bobby Orr The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Marcel Proust The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Herbert Spencer The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Raymond Chandler The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ben E. King The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • W. Clement Stone The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • James Baldwin The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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