Quotes with movements

Quotes 21 till 32 of 32.

• Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

  J. S. Habgood
   
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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

  Henri-Louis Bergson
  French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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• Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.

  Bob Barr
  American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

  Paul De Man
  In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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• The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'

  Bob Harper
  American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

  Arthur Rubenstein
   
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• We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

  Alfred de Vigny
  French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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• What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  St. Augustine of Hippo
  Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  Simone de Beauvoir
  French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristics
• statesmanship
• investigation
• perceptions
• considering
• exploration

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