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Moving Quotes

On change, growth and moving forward.

One quote traces a path from college theater electives to a full relocation out to Los Angeles after graduation, a literal kind of moving. Another uses the word emotionally, describing how choked up a well-known actor became while telling a particular story.

I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, the JTEC.

Quotes by Lonnie Johnson

It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

Quotes by Li Keqiang

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

Quotes by Lewis Capaldi

I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

Quotes by Les Dawson

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

Quotes by Les Claypool

Samasource's largest clients are technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Getty Images, and TripAdvisor, which contract with my company rather than a traditional outsourcing company in order to participate in 'impact sourcing' - conscious efforts to reduce poverty by moving...

Quotes by Leila Janah

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.

Quotes by Leigh Steinberg

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Quotes by Lech Walesa

Arthur Laffer has taught us, 'If you tax something, you get less of it.' That's why firms are moving offshore in droves. It's not about being unpatriotic. It's that it doesn't pay, after-tax, to invest in the United States.

Quotes by Lawrence Kudlow

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

Quotes by Lauren Graham

Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

Quotes by LaToya London

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

Quotes by Kumail Nanjiani

I've been travelling around moving from one movie set to another... it's been back-breaking, but am not complaining.

Quotes by Kriti Kharbanda

The Trump administration has been quietly moving to systematically undermine health care putting lives at risk and offering no alternative solution.

Quotes by Krystal Ball

Moving to L.A. and making albums was an exciting outlet, but I always thought I'd be slumming it job to job in N.Y.C. with hopes of being on Broadway!

Quotes by Kirstin Maldonado

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Quotes by Kevin Rudd

I'm really good at not moving my legs.

Quotes by Kevin McHale

I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.

Quotes by Kevin Brady

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

Quotes by Keir Dullea

What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are regulations.

Quotes by Kathy Szeliga

Frequently Asked Questions

Is "moving" used mostly in a physical sense in this collection, or emotionally too?
Both - it covers relocating for a new chapter in life, being emotionally moved by someone else's story, and the more abstract, physics sense of things being in motion.
Is there a personal story about a career and relocation?
Yes - one quote traces a specific path: theater work that "branched into" from college electives, a break "during the summer between my junior and senior year," and eventually, "After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A."
Is there a quote about being emotionally moved by someone else?
Yes, one quote is a short, vivid moment: "And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving," describing genuine emotion in someone else's storytelling.
Does this collection touch on physics?
Yes, plainly: one quote reflects on how a major shift in modern physics caused real upheaval in the field, because it shook the very foundations the science had been built on - a reminder that "moving" can describe ideas shifting, not just people or objects.
Is there a quote about accepting change and letting go?
Yes - one quote sums it up simply: "I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on." This same restless, forward-looking spirit runs through the Moving Forward quotes collection.

A more technical quote reflects on how modern physics only truly advanced once its old foundations started to shift beneath it. A closing line keeps things simple, insisting that life itself is really just about moving on. See our forward quotes and always quotes pages.