Movement Quotes - Page 30

• I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

  Misty Copeland

  Growing Up, Gymnastics, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

  Misty Copeland

  Moving, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: bknation.org

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• No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, President, Lobbyists

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Believe, Use, Speed

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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• Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Organization, People, Vision

  "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

  Miles Franklin

  Children, Civilization, Office

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• Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Passion, Magic

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Philosophy, People, Causes

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• It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

  Glenda Jackson

  Eye, Giving, Civil Rights

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• My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

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• anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Change, Spiritual, Purpose

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• I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

  Stevie Smith

  Home, Cat, Sight

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• Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

  Northrop Frye

  Healthy, Culture, Economics

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.292, Dundurn

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• The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Time, Children

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, Hysteria, Want

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are ever the same, but the developments are always new - in which, therefore, no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth, what hew manifestations of goodness, what new phases of the moral heaven may appear.

  Mark Hopkins

  God, Past, Government

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.284, 1895.

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• The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

  Storm Jameson

  Generations, Gestures, Next

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

  Ava Gardner

  Money, Long, Pockets

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• The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

  Joseph Stalin

  Leadership, Art, Fighting

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• any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Peace, War, Passion

  Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr

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• At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Liberty, Sides, Energy

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

  Joseph Cook

  Religious, Men, Judging

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• There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.

  Margaret Drabble

  Travel, Discovery, People

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• Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Feminism, Resistance, Female

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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