Quotes about Motion

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.

A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.

It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that — in spite of all the risks involved — a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.