Top 100 Move The Quotes
#1. When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
Marian Wright Edelman
#2. I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.
Michael Sandel
#3. The rule is, "When in doubt, load it out." Of course the more you carry, the greater a toll it takes on your body, the slower you move, the harder it is to react quickly to a threat.
Mark Owen
#4. How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
William Blake
#5. I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.
Dario Argento
#6. At this very moment, you possess the power of perspective. You can choose to see your life becoming whatever you wish. If you so choose, you can move the mountains in your life's path with the eventual help of those who will come to love you and learn to respect you for what you are becoming.
Andy Andrews
#7. There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Israel. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
#8. I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
Robert Kennedy
#9. The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
Ha Jin
#10. Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
But don't move the way fear makes you move.
Rumi
#11. Theatre artists at the Globe have to ask themselves: how does this moment or scene move the story forward or contribute to our understanding of the story? It
Fiona Banks
#12. Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Lucy Liu
#13. If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it's not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.
Marilyn Manson
#14. I don't want anyone getting hurt over me," I said and looked directly at him.
"Good." His mouth curled up into a smirk. "Then learn to defend yourself. Move the tarp.
Amanda Hocking
#15. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.' 'Very
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.
Steven Soderbergh
#17. I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
Olivia Thirlby
#18. Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
A.B. Simpson
#19. If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one's call might not come for years. If it doesn't, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe's faith in one's abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret
Frederick Exley
#20. There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.
Rumi
#21. Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
J.G. Ballard
#22. I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#23. When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.
Epictetus
#24. Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it
Marcus Aurelius
#25. I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
John Geddes
#27. You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.
O. Winston Link
#28. In a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news-gathering organization in the World, will no longer use the term 'illegal immigrant'. They will now use the phrase 'undocumented democrat'.
Jay Leno
#29. The thunder of horses' hooves grows ever louder, but, still, I do not move. The thunder of those hooves, the thudding of my heart, and the gasping in my lungs make such a cacophony, it's a wonder I hear Edmund at all.
Suzanna J. Linton
#30. To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.
Richard Rohr
#31. You may not be able to move the mountain with one hit, but you can do so by picking up the rocks bit by bit! Stop loading yourself and go bit by bit ... You will get there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body
Gabrielle Roth
#33. Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.
Liz Cheney
#34. I'm so tired. I'm tired of anxiety that twists my stomach so hard I can't move the rest of my body. Tired of constant vigilance. Tired of wanting to do something about myself, but always taking easy way out.
Francesca Zappia
#35. But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.
Bodhidharma
#36. I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it ... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
Harold Prince
#37. Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.
Christopher Hitchens
#39. I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#40. Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
#41. When we move the ball, we're one of the best teams in the league.
Tyson Chandler
#42. If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.
Jack R. Cotner
#43. God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.
Blaise Pascal
#44. It is personalities, not principles, that move the age
Oscar Wilde
#45. Those skilled in warfare move the enemy, and are not moved by the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#46. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky,
or the ocean and you move the hell on.
James Patterson
#47. Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.
William J. Clinton
#48. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
Eli Manning
#49. We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.
Harry Chapin
#50. No, I like it ... a lot ... but that's a helluva tattoo for a virgin."
He popped the pen back in, freeing up his hand to move the mouse.
I smirked. "If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right."
The pen fell from Trenton's mount to the floor.
Jamie McGuire
#51. When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Orlando Bloom
#53. American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet
#54. The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#55. When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.
Armand Hammer
#56. By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.
Sallie Tisdale
#57. The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.
Jeffery Deaver
#58. I've met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world.
Brian McClellan
#59. When we switch gears, we in effect move the problem that we have been trying to solve from our conscious brain to our unconscious
Anonymous
#60. We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.
David Hockney
#61. If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.
Agatha Christie
#62. Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.
Mark Suster
#63. I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
Tony Scott
#64. Rocks crumble, make new forms,
oceans move the continents,
mountains rise up and down like ghosts
yet all is natural, all is change.
Anne Sexton
#65. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#66. The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.
Chris Claremont
#67. I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
Dan Abnett
#68. Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.
Jeffrey Kluger
#69. You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense ... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Joseph Conrad
#70. Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#71. The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
Wendell Berry
#72. Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world.
William E. Jefferson
#73. Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.
E.L. Konigsburg
#74. The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.
Bill Gates
#75. By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
Ovid
#76. It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
Patrick Kane
#77. We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
Rick Renzi
#78. The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward.
Steve Aoki
#79. It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Sebastian Thrun
#80. Ray then revealed the most simple and important distinction of all. There are only four things that move the price of assets: 1. inflation, 2. deflation, 3. rising economic growth, and 4. declining economic growth.
Anthony Robbins
#81. What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.
Joey Harrington
#82. Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Archimedes
#83. Love has three hands: to touch the mind, to move the heart, and to soothe the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.
Maureen Johnson
#85. I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
Stanley Tucci
#86. Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
#87. The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
Matthew Simpson
#88. The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Mahalia Jackson
#89. Empty time is not a vacuum to be filled. It is the thing that enables the other things on your mind to be creatively rearranged, like the empty square in the 4 x 4 puzzle that makes it possible to move the other fifteen pieces around.
Harry Lewis
#90. The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#91. Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers ... can move the very heart of God who created the universe?
Joni Eareckson Tada
#92. There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.
Mark McKinnon
#93. Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
Ed Markey
#94. The minute the blonde grabs for my arm, I pull it up and hit her right in the nose. Bending over, tending to my move, the other two come at me, and soon as the other girls hand comes out close enough, I grab it and not thinking, bend and bite it.
Melyssa Winchester
#95. Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.
Ellen DeGeneres
#96. But regardless of the direction you move, the central problem is still there: Why do it? What's the best reason for exploding the parameters of reality? With the possible exception of eating a dinosaur, I don't think there is one.
Chuck Klosterman
#97. One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered ... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.
Austin Grossman
#98. I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.
Nat Friedman
#99. In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.
Elliott Abrams
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