(289 quotes found)
“Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion”
Dorthea Brande
“The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights”
Will Rogers
“A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.”
Henry Fielding
“As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.”
Sonia Johnson
“Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.”
J. G. Gallimore
“And doth, with his eternal motion makeA sound like thunder - everlasting”
William Wordsworth
“Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”
William Shakespeare
“Sense, sure, you have,Else you could not have motion.”
“Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.”
Charles W. Chesnutt
“It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus