Quotes about Motion

and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

Dynamism is a function of change.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by God.

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

In his magisterial Modern Times, the secular West wrongly applied Einstein's theories of relativity to morality: Not only were time and motion relative, so were good and evil.