Movement Quotes

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

Be your own guide, follow your own movement.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?

The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.