Motion Quotes - page 2

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. (Arthur Henderson)
I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. View quote
Dick York
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. View quote
Harold Brodkey
A motion to adjourn is always in order. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. View quote
Albert Abraham Michelson
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. View quote
Potter Stewart
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). View quote
J. G. Ballard
The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety. View quote
John Donne
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. View quote
Alexander Calder
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. (Montesquieu)
True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible. View quote
Bruce Lee
The rapid accumulation of change is not always progress, and forward motion is not always an advance. View quote
Jonathan Weiner
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random. View quote
Donald Knuth
Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. View quote
Henry Miller
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time. View quote
Philo
I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments. View quote
Michio Kushi
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. (Frantz Fanon)
Jobs: Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. View quote
Steve Jobs
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion. View quote
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately. Only time, however, could show whether you'd been accurate in your judgment. View quote
Nicholas Sparks