Motion Quotes

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.”
― Andrew Motion

“I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
― Anais Nin

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.”
― Pierre Simon de Laplace

“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“We are all glorified motion sensors.

Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change.

We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same time we observe and obsess over small, fast-moving, ephemeral things of little value.

The trick to rediscovering constants is to stop and focus on the greater panorama around us. While everything else flits abut, the important things remain in place.

Their stillness appears as reverse motion to our perspective, as relativity resets our motion sensors. It reboots us, allowing us once again to perceive.

And now that we do see, suddenly we realize that those still things are not so motionless after all. They are simply gliding with slow individualistic grace against the backdrop of the immense universe.

And it takes a more sensitive motion instrument to track this.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.”
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we ourselves and all our thoughts are also a part of nature. It is utterly beyond our power to measure the changes of things by time. Quite the contrary, time is an abstraction, at which we arrive by means of the change of things; made because we are not restricted to any one definite measure, all being interconnected. A motion is termed uniform in which equal increments of space described correspond to equal increments of space described by some motion with which we form a comparison, as the rotation of the earth. A motion may, with respect to another motion, be uniform. But the question whether a motion is in itself uniform, is senseless. With just as little justice, also, may we speak of an “absolute time” --- of a time independent of change. This absolute time can be measured by comparison with no motion; it has therefore neither a practical nor a scientific value; and no one is justified in saying that he knows aught about it. It is an idle metaphysical conception.”
― Ernst Mach, Science of Mechanics

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Published for the Royal Society. VOLUMES 1 through 7

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.”
― John Swartzwelder, The Time Machine Did It

“. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Nothing is fact, everything is flux.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The vehicle is not the payload.
The vehicle carries the payload.
The vehicle can change while something recognizable crosses.”
― John Stack IV

“A successful vehicle does not merely preserve information. It helps create the Receiving State in which the information can cross.”
― John Stack IV

“Energy persists does not entail personal identity persists.”
― John Stack IV

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion”
― Rumi

“Momentum is motion with a mission—each small action pushes the flywheel, turning intention into an unstoppable force.”
― Farshad Asl

“Keep moving—determination is discipline in motion.”
― Farshad Asl

“Put into motion what you discover in YOUR inner potential and shape performance with high knowledge.”
― Oprea Ionel

“A can of soup rolled away through the grass, as if wanting no part of the whole scene. The parsley shot upward like a tiny green firework. The apple veered off again, making a clean getaway this time.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, Summer Breeze: An Anthology of Summer Stories

“You break in motions because sometimes our emotions get the best of us.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“We ran
Back and forth, opening
All the sturdy doors, giddy
As kid goats that have learned
To dance on two hooves.
Breath after breath charging
In and out. Heavy, heavy,
And then weightless, moving
With the prescience of light.”
― Tracy K. Smith, The Body's Question