Best 1340 quotes in «movement quotes» category

It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

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.

It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

I've always said, "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it." And I have never understood why it is that people - you know, I hate liberalism. I'm totally opposed to liberalism. I do not like that at all.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

I want to be clear. Who knows if [ Donald Trump] will be a vessel that people will get behind, it might not be, but there is a movement out there.

I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

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.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.