Motions Quotes

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

Men, Long, Stars

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham

Money, Destiny, String

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
David Herbert Lawrence

Mind, Judge, Perfect

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
Bryant H. McGill

Education, True, Through

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne

Fool, Busy, Through

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Father, Book, Learn

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
Christian Bale

Best, Nothing, Through

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
Michael Phelps

Through, Times, Practice

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Nicolaus Copernicus

History, Through, Study

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Moving, Nothing, Earth

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
Phil McGraw

Money, Through, Tell

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
Peter Fenn

Alone, Last, Used

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau

Government, Through, Others

The soul has many motions, body one.
Theodore Roethke

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
Matt Cameron

Life, Music, Good

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
A. R. Ammons

God, Greatest, Stillness

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Whole, Means, Natural

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.
Bobby Rahal

Through, Remember

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
Wale

Good, Person, Through

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Richard Blackmore

Mind, Single, Thought

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Work, Used, Force

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.
Al Kaline

Through, Understand, Play

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.
Ronnie Montrose

Through, Write, Might

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.
Ronnie Montrose

Music, Business, Successful

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
John Joly

Great, Universe, Results

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
John Byng

Judge, Enemy, Before

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
Frederick Law Olmsted

Work, Strength, Night

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