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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken ? the choosing was not. Just keep moving on...

Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Act 2

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive Jones

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot
English novelist (1819 - 1880)

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
US jurist (1841 - 1935)

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

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