Quotes of Movement - somelinesforyou

“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”

- Rebecca West

“ No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn. ”

- Hal Borland

“ The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered. ”

- Andre Gide

“ The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ”

- Mata Hari

“ Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch. ”

- John Dryden

“ The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. ”

- E. H. Chapin

“ I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. ”

- Robert Greene

“ Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. ”

- Judith Butler

“ Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. ”

- James Farmer

“ Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. ”

- Peter York

“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ”

- Aristotle

“ Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. ”

- Henry Ford

“ I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is. ”

- Wayne Gretzky

“ The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from they hand no noble action done. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ”

- The Bible

“ Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. ”

- Bible

“ Leadership is action, not position. ”

- Donald H. McGannon

“ Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ Beginning drivers seem to make a lot of jerky movements with the wheel. Actually they're making smooth movements to very short horizons. ”

- David Allen

“ Never confuse movement with action. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ All movements go too far. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ". ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action. ”

- Alexander Mackenzie

“ All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ”

- Pat Paulsen

“ It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. ”

- Anthony Trollope

“ I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes. ”

- Sara Teasdale
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