Movement Quotes

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

A hashtag is not helping... A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr. King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.

I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.

The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.