Quotes about moving
moving history way
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. George Orwell
moving men thinking
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
moving games thrones
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. George R. R. Martin
moving thinking suits-of-armor
You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
moving past men
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.
moving purpose way
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you
moving moon men
Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.
moving men want
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
moving silence faster
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. Jean Cocteau
moving numbers guy
Things I wonder about the FBI's list of the "Ten Most Wanted" criminals: When they catch a guy and he comes off the list, does number eleven automatically move up? And does he see it as a promotion? Does he call his criminal friends and say, "I made it, Bruno. I'm finally on the list"? George Carlin
moving church institutions
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. Gene Robinson
moving views government
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
moving interpretation difficult
It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult. Garth Stein
moving-on moving airplane
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way. Garth Brooks
moving
I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take. Garry Winogrand
moving judgement important
I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters. Gail Kelly
moving doubt alive
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving. Frederick Buechner
moving men architecture
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten. Frank Gehry
moving fall accomplishment
The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind. George Eastman
moving three movement
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. Fernand Braudel
moving ideas numbers
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential Ferdinand Porsche
moving air looks
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move. Fernando Pessoa
moving way lips
There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move. Felicity Kendal
moving character stories
That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one. Fede Alvarez
moving looks wonderful
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure. Fay Wray
moving kind all-occasions
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure Fanny Burney
moving writing wind
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. Ezra Pound
moving cutting knights
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
moving action moved
Either move or be moved.
moving book media
The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has given. In this age of electronic media and mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way. Ezra Taft Benson
moving responsibility church
We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church—first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.
moving procrastination goal
If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.
moving skills target
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. Eve Arnold