Quotes with motions

  • Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
  • Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
  • If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • A. R. Ammons If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • John Jay Chapman If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bryant H. McGill True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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