Quotes about Motion

THE VERY ORDER, DISPOSITION, BEAUTY, CHANGE AND MOTION OF THE WORLD AND OF ALL VISIBLE THINGS SILENTLY PROCLAIM THAT IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN MADE BY GOD. —AUGUSTINE

But in the science of physics, power means something different. Power describes how fast you use energy. For example, it takes the same amount of energy to walk across a football field as it does to run across a football field. But running is faster. Therefore, running has more power. This is the kind of power that makes things happen.

Motion causes friction. Make the commitment early!

Vows are powerful things, he said. They set things in motion.

Imagine the difference this could make with not setting into motion what needs to remain still.

We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the run itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those starts of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament where they may be seen evening or morning? The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.

Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day   (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd   To motion, measures all things durable   By present, past, and future) on such

Wind has no feet, but travels great distances, and has no hands, but carries great objects.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Since, then, man cannot make principles, from whence did he gain a knowledge of them, so as to be able to apply them, not only to things on earth, but to ascertain the motion of bodies so immensely distant from him as all the heavenly bodies are? From whence, I ask, could he gain that knowledge, but from the study of the true theology?

The motion of our praise must be like the motion of our pulse, which beats as long as life lasts.

A halfman on a skatecart oared past with leather chocks.