T Quotes
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“The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“The movement for nuclear weapons free world needs leadership from all parts of the world. It needs to go right at the top of the UN’s agenda. Nuclear weapons are the ugliest threat to the humanity itself.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.”
“The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and ideas about how they should be. I think fiction can capture that kind of thing better than other genres because in fiction you can explore the feelings of your characters - the before and the after.”
“The movement has, for the most part, been led by educated white middle-class women. There is nothing unusual about this. Reform as movements are usually led by the better educated and better off. But, if the women's movement is to be successful you must recognize the broad variety of women there are and the depth and range of their interests and concerns. To black and Chicana women, picketing a restricted club or insisting on the title Ms. are not burning issues. They are more concerned about bread-and-butter items such as the extension of minimum wage, welfare reform and day care. Further, they are not only women but women of color and thus are subject to additional and sometimes different pressures.
(From Voices of Multicultural America)”
“The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.”
“The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.”
“The movement is part of the still. The still is part of the movement. The dancer can be still and still dance. He or she can move and still be still.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“The movement must go beyond its leaders”
“The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.”
“The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.”
“The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.”
Source: Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“The movement of her beautiful back , shallow line of her spine, and the twin dimples at her lower back is a soft invitation to madness ...”
“The movement of life has its rest in its own music.”
“The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny.”
“The movement
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins”
Source: Cottonmouth Kisses
“The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.”
“The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds”
Source: A Heart as Wide as the World
“The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.”
“The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”
“The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.”
“The movement of you brought forward is love.”
“The movement really has evolved because their initial demands [such as factory codes of conduct and disclosure of supplier names and addresses] have virtually all been met. This recent idea of factory certification is building on what they got some time ago.”
“The movement's institutional legacy can also be seen in the realm of higher education: Chicano and Puerto Rican studies programs are the product of these movements and continue to play a key role in providing Latinos with a "civic education" that both politicizes and produces particular conceptions of Latino identity and subjectivity.”
Source: The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity
“The movement that appears to be put together and led by Trump actually existed before Trump came along. The people fed up with the Republican Party, the Tea Party types, the people fed up with the Republican Washington establishment, Democrats included.”
“The movement that I’m in favor of is a movement of libertarians who do not substitute whim for reason. Now some of them do, obviously, and I’m against that. I’m in favor of reason over whim. As far as I’m concerned, and I think the rest of the movement, too, we are anarcho-capitalists. In other words, we believe that capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can’t really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism.”
“The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.”
Source: Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
“The movement toward equality still has a long way to go, especially in a world in which the poorest, and particularly the poorest in the poorest countries, are preparing to be subjected, with increasing violence, to climatic and environmental damage caused by the richest people’s way of life.”
Source: A Brief History of Equality
“The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.”
“The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.”
Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.”
“The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.”
Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel
“The movements of the stars have become clearer; but to the mass of the people the movements of their masters are still incalculable.
[Scene fourteen. Translation by Desmond Vesey, 1960. ‘The present version is a translation of the complete text of the latest German edition, not a stage adaptation.’]”
Source: Galileo
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.”
“The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.”
“The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world, and the doctrine that physical and psychological pain are the greatest evils.”
“The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."”
“The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.”
“The movie [ The Innkeepers] is in no way a comedy, but I would put some of the funny scenes up against some of the funnier comedies this year. I think it's genuinely really funny, but it's out of the gallows.”
“The movie [Aquarius] is about love, ultimately, and it was made with love. There were a lot of parents in the crew, and they were the best crew I had ever worked with. Everybody knew the construction of each scene, and were completely invested in every shooting day.”
“The movie [Blue Jasmin] shot very quick. I met Cate Blanchett in the car on the way to set, and we did that last scene, and she was just so phenomenal. I had basically met her that day. Because the way he shoots, everybody just shows up and does their thing, and he moves us very quickly.”
“The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.”
“The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that”
“The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.”
“The movie and the political campaign GEMS built around it were typical of [Rachel] Lloyd's in-your-face approach to politics and publicity. "If we just framed it as 'rescuing children,' people would give us more money," she says. "I could put pictures of little scared blond kids on our Web page. But this isn't about rescuing a child from a bad situation. This is about what we, as a culture and a society, are creating; why can this be perpetuated within our society?”
Source: Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
“The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.”