Moves Quotes

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Henry Miller

Life, Death, Two

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Henry Miller

Good, Great, Evil

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Move, Necessary

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid

Body, Water, Unless

Mind moves matter.
Virgil

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Direction, Aggression, Creates

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
E. B. White

Next, Room, National

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Christopher Morley

Thinking, Imagine, Mechanical

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown

Friend, Silence, Hurts

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales

True, Progress, Along

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

Time, Rather, Eye

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
Martin Scorsese

Along, Major, Basically

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade

Philosophy, Light, Achieve

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour

Truth, Speak, Few

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney

Mind, Rather, Playing

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Jonathan Sacks

Education, Politics, Today

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
Jean Cocteau

Silence, Backward, Faster

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Arthur Erickson

Spiritual, Space, Physical

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix

Work, Enough, Said

I'm okay with having bad dance moves.
Katy Perry

Bad, Dance, Okay

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton

Nature, Nothing, Force

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin Heidegger

History, Within, Historical

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
Jay-Z

Money, Rich, Poor

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver

Truth, Pain, Heart

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
Bono

God, Through, Spirit

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

Stupid, Genius, Might

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
Ralph Fiennes

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.
Katy Perry

Bad, Dance, Reason

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Game, Mean, Before

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Soul, Sometimes

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