Quotes with motion

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  • Arthur Henderson The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Boo Weekley There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Branford Marsalis There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ben Stein There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
    On his points of making Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • B. Kevin Turner We have been investing in building a mobile-first selling capability by establishing the Consumer Channels Group to strengthen and align the device-selling motion and to expand our impact with OEM, retail channel partners and our operator channel, and by extending it with our opening of Microsoft Stores.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Cohen When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about... never underestimate the importance of a kind act.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Victor Hansen You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
    Mark Victor Hansen
    American motivational speaker and author (1948 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Brooks Atkinson 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.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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