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Movements are as eloquent as words. -- Isadora Duncan
Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth. -- Lee Hirsch
Movements of the body are a reflection of the soul. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. -- Gloria Steinem
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature. -- Toni Morrison
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision. -- Ai-jen Poo
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect. -- Parker Palmer
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good. -- Marshall Ganz
It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong. -- Dolores Huerta
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. -- Shawn Johnson
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. -- Elliott Carter
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. -- Norman McLaren
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. -- Mother Jones
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. -- Alfred de Vigny
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. -- Zoltan Kodaly
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. -- Peter L. Berger
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. -- Walter Lippmann
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism. -- Sepp Blatter
The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect. -- Evo Morales
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. -- Egon Schiele
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering. -- Henri Nouwen
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. -- Joseph Joubert
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire. -- Michael Hastings
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. -- Saint Augustine
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel. -- Steven Seagal
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen. -- Steven Amsterdam
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways. -- Justin Rosenstein
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. -- Paul Revere
There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future. -- Alan Moore
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. -- Michael Moore
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. -- Hugh Evans
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism. -- Nick Clegg
Respect movements, flee schools. -- Jean Cocteau
Utopian movements produce dystopias. -- Dennis Prager
Zionism, like other self-determination movements... -- Ruth Wisse
All movements go too far. -- Bertrand Russell
I don't do any vulgar movements. -- Elvis Presley
Keep making the movements of life. -- Henry James
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Political movements always belong to the young. -- Harvey Fierstein
Individual struggles merge into larger social movements. -- Henry Giroux
You cannot have politics without building mass-movements. -- Vijay Prashad
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. -- I. F. Stone
Living movements do not come out of committees. -- John Newman
Inequality is the cause of all local movements. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Remember the movements that don't look like moving. -- China Mieville
I didnt know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall. -- Sean Maher
True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation. -- Sun Myung Moon
[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot. -- William S. Burroughs
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. -- Matt Taibbi
It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic. -- Robert Aris Willmott
I don't fully understand movements in the gold price -- Ben Bernanke
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. -- William James
Ðrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. -- Morgan Parker
My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own. -- Dave Eggers
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. -- Amit Ray
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. -- Marshall Ganz
Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. -- Leo Tolstoy
Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small. -- Lauren Oliver
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'. -- Karl Marx
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology. -- Bernard Baruch
Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. -- Alan Greenspan
I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. -- Suzanne Farrell
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. -- Louis Bachelier
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements -- W.S. Gilbert
I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them. -- Aime Martin
The eyes, hands and body movements are important to make the dance sexier. -- Seungri
There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements. -- John Trudell
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose. -- Nelly Mazloum
The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties. -- Henry David Thoreau
A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging. -- Mia Bloom
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. -- Neil Kinnock
The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America. -- Mario Savio
If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth. -- Peter Mayhew
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws. -- William Golding
We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements. -- Renzo Gracie
All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach) -- Arnold Bax
My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body. -- Elvis Presley
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. -- Anais Nin
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. -- Norman Mailer
I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life. -- Pope Francis
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. -- Saint Augustine
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. -- Robert C. Solomon
When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born. -- E. Stanley Jones
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them. -- Jim Wallis
A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements. -- Daniel Boulud
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies -- Samuel P. Huntington
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. -- Keith Henson
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness. -- Deepak Chopra
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. -- William S. Burroughs
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. -- Robert M. Lindner
[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. -- Shane Claiborne
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements. -- Maria Montessori
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. -- Emma Bonino
Dance is the healing treasure within your spirit that only movements of passion can set free. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice. -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. -- Dan Brown
Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people. -- Charles Ives
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. -- Herodotus
No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom. -- Fareed Zakaria
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification. -- Robin Morgan
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements. -- Janet Mock
So effortlessly dance compliments melodies, when imperfections of two come together through movements... evolving into one light. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness... -- Alain de Botton
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. -- Gloria Steinem
They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements. -- Scarlett Johansson
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. -- Mother Jones
In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend. -- Robertson Davies
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. -- Arthur Rubinstein

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