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"But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit."
"Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left."
"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
"Life is a child moving counters in a game."
"Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world... Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation."
"I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently"
"A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature."
"I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger."
"We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion."
"With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand."
"He who moves not forward, goes backward."
"I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt."
"Awe is what moves us forward."
"What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?"
"The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy."
"Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others."
"Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values."
"Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires."
"You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion."
"Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink..."
