Movement Quotes - Page 21

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.