Movement Quotes - Page 4

• I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

  Terry Kath

  Worry, Busy, Fingerboard

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.

  John Herschel

  Country, Mean, Science

  "Memoir of Francis Baily".

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• One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

  Simon Newcomb

  Knowledge, Science, Simple

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Nature, Science, Energy

  Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Women, Sadness

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  Ted Danson

  Political, Environmental, Disaster

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• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Rights, Diversity

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

  Kinky Friedman

  Country, Hippie, Rights

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

  Spiritual, Women, Believe

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Learning, Creativity, Simple

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• No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

  Milan Kundera

  Rust, World, Bears

  Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

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• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

  Louise Brooks

  Art, Soul, Faces

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• For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

  Avery Brundage

  Art, Games, Long

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• Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  "Global struggle for women's rights spotlighted at New York meeting" by Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2000.

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• What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

  Joan Miro

  Silence, Eloquence, Seeking

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

  Organization, Greed, Selfishness

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

  Joe Slovo

  Believe, Mass, Democratic

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• Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

  Boy George

  Gay, Worry, Individuality

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• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Mother, Lying, Science

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• Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Danny Glover

  Children, Rights, Civil Rights

  "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.

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• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Science, Hands, Long

  John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1846). “A Complete Guide to the Lakes: Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, &c., ...”, p.168

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• The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Science, Mind, Causes

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  John Sweeney

  Strong, Children, Commitment

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• Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

  Robert Henri

  Moving, Expression, Ideas

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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