Top 100 Set In Motion Sayings
#1. could still believe in their possible presence; for memory was now set in motion;
Marcel Proust
#2. One's entire life - his mental state, his health, his relationships, the material gains that he may or may not make - are all effects which have been set in motion by causes to be found somewhere in one's background, in this life or previous ones.
Brad Steiger
#3. Each new child that's born to the Antrobuses seems to them to be sufficient reason for the whole universe's being set in motion; and each new child that dies seems to them to have been spared a whole world of sorrow, and what the end of it will be is still very much an open question.
Thornton Wilder
#4. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
#5. We're set in motion and then we spend our lives maintaining that motion, but to what end? For what purpose?
Carrie Ryan
#6. The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Arthur Henderson
#7. If our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.
Edward O. Wilson
#8. Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.
J. Valor
#9. It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.
Clifford D. Simak
#10. And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.
Andre Agassi
#11. Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt
#12. Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.
Steve Maraboli
#13. Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.
Eric Hansen
#14. A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
George Meredith
#15. You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#16. THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world.
Sharon Weil
#17. With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.
Frederick Lenz
#18. If you want something, you need to initiate an activity. However, if you never pause to watch the results and to assess what you have set in motion, you will miss information that will help you. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#19. The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.
Johann Most
#20. Love requires openness. The point is to be changed by, and to witness change in, one another. Slowly, this back-and-forth transforms the shared reality we call the world. Love is less noun than verb: not a thing to get, but a process to set in motion.
Moira Weigel
#21. Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.
Tom Chatfield
#22. What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
Leonard Sweet
#23. He'll use the sword to set in motion a chain of events to hasten Doomsday.
Rick Riordan
#24. Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.
Orison Swett Marden
#25. If you're not entirely sure you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, it seems to me that the last thing you'd want to do is to set in motion a very lengthy, time-consuming, expensive, and highly public process designed to lead inexorably to just that.
Donna Andrews
#26. I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what's already been set in motion.
Michael Cunningham
#27. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows.
Andre Agassi
#28. There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.
Margaret Stohl
#29. Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.
Dave Ramsey
#30. If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.
Bill Bryson
#31. The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
Caroline Myss
#32. Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt ... Doubt and despair ... belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion ... Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.
Soren Kierkegaard
#33. When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things. And that's not all.
Gary Keller
#34. Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
Honore De Balzac
#35. When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
Arthur Miller
#36. What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience
but they will be stopped.
George W. Bush
#37. The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
Matt Chandler
#38. It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.
Robbie Fowler
#39. It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.
Patricia Moyes
#40. How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.
Tom Clancy
#41. When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
#42. ...in the tiny 'unhistoric acts' of goodness which she performs within her limited circle a ripple of influence has been set in motion which may eventually lap the edge of the world.
Holly Chamberlin
#43. I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.
Jon Krakauer
#44. The central plotline of the story of Scripture was set in motion: a holy God making a way to dwell in the midst of an unholy people.
Kevin DeYoung
#45. Thoughts are things. Everything you do or think is a cause set in motion. Every thought sent forth is a never-ending vibration spiraling its way across the universe and returning to us what we have sent with interest.
David Wolfe
#46. Keep away from her, said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might as well try and keep bees from honey, crooks from money, politicians from babies, philosophers from maybes. Vina had her hooks in me, and the consequence was the story of my life.
Salman Rushdie
#47. Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion ... Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#48. It was the hour of morning,
when the sun mounts with those stars
that shone with it when God's own love
first set in motion those fair things
Dante Alighieri
#49. That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God's goodness.
K. Howard Joslin
#50. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring.
Nicholas Sparks
#51. To get whatever you want from life you have only to set in motion the appropriate cause, and the effect will take care of itself.
Keith Ellis
#52. Had Keirah and her sisters known what was set in motion the day their stones appeared and how personally they would be affected by it, they would have still fought the darkness, still battled for what belonged to them.
Madison Thorne Grey
#53. We're like dominoes, Beckett and I. I've tipped us forward until everything is set in motion. I can't stop us from colliding. I should enjoy the fall while it lasts. But I know the end is coming too. The quiet. The day where everything has fallen and there's nothing left but a mess.
Rebecca Paula
#54. Maybe if this had been our beginning we would have had a much different ending, but we couldn't go back in time. We couldn't change what had been done, what he had set in motion.
Angela Richardson
#55. [ ... ] ideology was like a set of enormous wheels at the back of the stage, turning and setting in motion wars, revolutions, reforms. The wheels of immunology turn without having any effect upon History.
Milan Kundera
#56. The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Antoine Lavoisier
#58. Set a challenge for yourself and challenge yourself to set a challenge for others to challenge themselves. True strength, true wisdom, true tenacity and true courage is best seen when it is in motion! Take action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. Vows are powerful things," he said. "They set things in motion.
John C. Wright
#60. I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#61. Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
Toni Cade Bambara
#62. Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.
Armistead Maupin
#63. I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.
Blaise Pascal
#64. a butterfly in a West African rain forest, by flitting to the left of a tree rather than to the right, possibly set into motion a chain of events that escalates into a hurricane striking coastal South Carolina a few weeks later?
Erik Larson
#65. Set your desires in motion by connecting to the heart conscious.
Steven Redhead
#66. Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.
Joan Robinson
#67. The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It's more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop. The church is a Force ... and one does not set a Force in motion lightly.
Stephen King
#68. Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#69. He kissed her, and the magic that had been building up steadily around them exploded, raining down in arcs of silver fire that made her half-remember a prophecy from her dreams.
One by one, they all will die.
Something had been set into motion.
Nenia Campbell
#70. For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply governed the running of the universe. That is how Newton saw the workings of God and the workings of God's universe.
Evan Harris Walker
#71. You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they're going to end up.
Laird Barron
#72. It is through action that you set the wheels of life in motion to get what you want and be who you want to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#73. Gabriel cocked his head to the side. "Is that what happened in her last life too? You just accidentally
touched Scarlet enough to set the lifeforce transition into motion? God! How much touching did you
do?"
Tristan narrowed his eyes. "What do you want, like a scale of one to ten?
Chelsea Fine
#74. So he set into motion a revolution in education: creative students would be singled out and allowed to pursue their dreams at their own pace.
Anonymous
#75. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive.
Neil Gaiman
#76. You can't stumble into an adventure. An artist must dance, not walk, in order to inspire their audience. This patient audience who has witnessed all that you've ever performed. So don't be shy. Just dance. Set this scene into motion.
F.K. Preston
#77. The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.
Jonathan Dee
#78. An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.
Knute Rockne
#79. Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed
Frederick Buechner
#80. To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin ... to set something into motion.
Hannah Arendt
#81. Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.
Marcus Aurelius
#82. You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
Haruki Murakami
#83. A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of air - eventually capable of starting a hurricane on the other side of the planet.
Andy Andrews
#84. If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.
Gabrielle Roth
#85. I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
Sidney Poitier
#86. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#87. Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.
Stuart Dybek
#88. Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
Steven Pressfield
#89. They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.
Jennifer Weiner
#90. So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
Thomas Dolby
#91. The sun was about to set, he told us in a gravelly voice. He swept his hands in a downward motion, apparently to demonstrate how a sunset worked
Richelle Mead
#92. A word is a magic thing. It holds the essence of an object or idea and pins it to the world. A word can set a universe in motion.
Kelly Barnhill
#93. It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.
Paulo Coelho
#95. There seemed no motion, no rhythm, in all the world, but that which I had set up, between her legs, with one wet fingertip.
Sarah Waters
#96. I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.
Alan Moore
#97. Do not feel lonely,
the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames.
Rumi
#98. Something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ... that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality, ... and thinks He moved the finger
Peter Watts
#99. When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
Harry Shearer
#100. They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.
Zadie Smith
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