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Letter "M" » Movements
«I constructed a theoretically perfect thrust, but I eliminated a few intermediate movements so that nobody could execute it. It has the appearance of being perfect»
Author: Arturo Perez Reverte
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
eliminated, Movements, theoretically
«I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.»
«It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top»
«I don't make no dirty movements»
«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.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, arrest, educational, efficacious, helpful, imposition, impositions, Movements, rigorously, spontaneous, tasks, tends, tends to, The Complete, unfolding
«It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
contradiction, fervent, guilt, imposing, Movements, plausible, profession, that is to say
«Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them»
«No member needs so great a number of muscles as the tongue; this exceeds all the rest in the number of its movements»
«Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
air, as it were, cities, common language, connection, directions, hang, hover, hovered, hovers, in common, in the air, language, Movements, names, settle, The Connection, the Earth, The Thing
«My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformaties, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old f»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
assumed, coat, coats, comfortably, complacent, molded, Movements, wrinkles
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