Quotation Explorer - 'Movement'

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! - Theodor Herzl
I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests. - Mike Adams
Instead, we talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do. - Gloria Steinem
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Never confuse movement with action. - Ernest Hemingway
Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure potential. - Ambika Devi
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise. - Michael Foley
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. - Phyllis Schlafly
Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite extent of China. - Kafka, Franz
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. - Rush Limbaugh
Dance is your words expressed with movement. - Pablito Greco
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. - Søren Kierkegaard
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard. - Finn Mackay
Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do. - Narboe, Nan
I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. - Catherine Astolfo
Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him. - Kazimir Malevich
Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist. - William Allen White
What was achieved under Nazi-fascism through bloody terror against the organized workers’ movement and the people is to be achieved again today in West Europe through the information society - Red Army Faction
Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another round of useless sanctions. - Reza Aslan
Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly. - Sam Harris
A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution. - F. Sionil José
Every strict progression of an uncertain event is cease of movement in time and a birth of new space. - Vishwanath S J
When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. - S.E. Cupp
What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Feminist movement is pro-family. - bell hooks
Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision. - Toni Sorenson
Be a person that radiates happiness with her every movement and enlightens every place she goes with her smile. - Debasish Mridha
One can no more translate movement into words than music into words. - Marty Rubin
Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind. - Marty Rubin
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. - Nora Ephron
The thing that seems most natural to me-most human-is movement. - Marty Rubin
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. - D.L. Moody
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values. - Sunday Adelaja
It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God. - Étienne Gilson
As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates - Dean Cavanagh
Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. - Salvador Dalí
We need movement, activity, as much as air and water. - Marty Rubin
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. - Alfred Adler
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. - Arnold Toynbee
behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government. - Frank Zappa
..the women's movement never left the father Dick's side....We got a share of genocide profits and we love it...If we're Dick's sister and want what he has gotten, then in the end we support that system that he got it all from. - Mary Barfoot
You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. - Ursula K. Le Guin
How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change. - Seneca
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. - Leo Tolstoy
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. - Martha Graham
There's no point in knowing without enlightenment, yet edified insights arouse movement. - JT Sanz
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home. - Gore Vidal
Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future. - Sandra Meucci
Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom
Dance fotografers/videografers (ph=f) capture a moment in movement; while dancers get birth of their artscience. - Pablito Greco
The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don’t be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it. - Steve Maraboli
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
Movement is knowledge. Art is perception - Armin Houman
Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness. - Munia Khan
I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I’d hidden it in my boot. Who the hell are you? - Georgia Clark
Leadership is about movement and growth. - Mark Sanborn
Not all speed is movement. - Toni Cade Bambara
In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time. - Donna Lynn Hope
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. - Carl Jung
It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence. - Krishnamurti
Time never changes—only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth. - Debasish Mridha
Movement is joy. - Marty Rubin
Acquiring a blissful brain and in peace, is when I think positively, the sounds around and within me become music, my movement as one of a conscious dance, my smile breaking in to an infectious laughter, my mind transcending in meditation, and my life grows and becomes a celebration! - Angie karan
The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.
Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I think anything's possible. If I don't help the women in Afghanistan, they won't be around to help me. - Cheryl Benard quoting Lorrie
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896. - James Livingston
[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson
Humanitarian Logistics is about mobilization and movement of resources for disaster preparedness, disaster response and disaster recovery - Victor Manan Nyambala
She could feel something unnatural following her every movement as she washed her bountiful Huzza and Wahzoozie" BATS - Fred Barnett
Impressionism is not a movement, it is a philosophy of life. - Max Lieberman
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. - Mata Hari
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. - Don Roff
I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process. - Rosaleen Love
Welfare reforms and the whole happy exploitation movement are not baby steps. They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction. - Gary L. Francione
The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already. - The Covert Comic
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. - Betty Friedan
Putting heart & soul & contributing to what you are good at... is only for that movement. All is forgotten & people sitting far a distance knowingly wouldn't accept the same. Ultimately we make no difference & ground zero reality is never taken into account. - Stephen Manoharan
examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name philosophy indicates that philosophy has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another. - Gregory B. Sadler
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. - Ann Patchett
We must accept the idea that having a male child has a unique social and psychological meaning for a woman. Even women who led the movement to break out the passivity and sublimation of the female role were deeply influenced by the belief in superior masculine power. - Klein Carole
The self-help movement that began in the latter half of the twentieth century suffers particularly from this flaw, for the personal and interpersonal skills it seeks to cultivate are almost always designed to get us more of what we think we want, rather than to bring about a change of heart. - C. Terry Warner
If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. - Michael Jay Tucker
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