move quotes

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

-James Addison, III Baker
  Of statesmanship. In Time,19 Mar.

For in him we live, and move and have our being.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles17:28.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has cummings thoroughly and perfectlyannihilated by that vast and painful process of Unthinking which may result in a minutebitof purelypersonal Feeling.Whichminutebit is Art. colossal faults, but onething cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.12. 1927  'Why I Like  America', in Vanity Fair, May.

I have observed, in the course of a dishonest life, that when a rogue is outlining a treacherous plan, he works harder to convince himself than to move his hearers.

- George MacDonald Fraser
  Flashman.

'Oh,'she said,'I die each time. Do you not die?' 'No. Almost. But did thee feel the earth move?' 'Yes. As I died. Put thy arm around me, please.'

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  For Whom  the Bell Tolls, ch.7.

She looked at me the way you'd look at a chessman if it made its own move.

- Randall Jarrell
  Pictures from an Institution, pt.2, ch.1.