Moving Quotes

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.

The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.

I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.

That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

I never leave anything behind. It's like a history, a chain, a line of life, you just have to move and make new steps, and keep it evolving - but my soul is my soul.

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

We've got a lot of the meal left to go. Should we move on from the turkey?

Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.