Never confuse movement with action.
—Ernest Hemingway
There is this idea now in this country that all people who succeed, succeed on their own, and all people who fail, fail on their own, whereas neither is true. The vast majority of people in this country stay where they're born. Very few people move too far from home. Rich people rarely become poor, and poor people rarely become rich. But we live in a society ruled by anecdote, so that we have no sense at all of what actually happens to most people.
—Fran Lebowitz
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
—Rabindranath Tagore
I saw a stationery store move.
—Jay London
The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird-watcher in the country.
—John N. Mitchell,
U.S. attorney general, 1969-1972
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
—Norman McLaren
All movements go too far.
—Bertrand Russell