Breathing Quotes - Page 27

• Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Should, Ready, Conditions

  4 Copy quote

• I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

  Wendell Berry

  Lines, Environment, Like You

  5 Copy quote

• It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

  Jerry Adler

  Earth, Problem, Morbid

  8 Copy quote

• A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

  Aaron Hoopes

  Peace, Stress, Simple

  4 Copy quote

• I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.

  Malina Suliman

  Husband, Sacrifice, Men

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, People, Hollywood

  "Stardust - Matthew Vaughn and Neil Gaiman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

  Henry Vaughan

  Christmas, Light, Sun

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.119

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

  Emily Carr

  Mean, Oneness, Space

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

  John Edward

  Deep Breathing, Hands, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
  Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves
  First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
  Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
  These, as successive generations bloom,
  New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume;
  Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
  And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Spring, Ocean, Moving

  18 Copy quote

• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Blood, Luxury

  13 Copy quote

• In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Self, Two

  5 Copy quote

• Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Stress, Steps, Deterioration

  8 Copy quote

• It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.

  Stuart Scott

  Workout, Hurt, Feel Good

  9 Copy quote

• George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

  Gideon Haigh

  Sports, War, Greatness

  Gideon Haigh (2010). “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents”, p.197, Victory Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

  Isaac Marion

  Air, Needs, Optional

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Silence, Moss

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

  Pete Wentz

  Soccer, Adventure, Interesting

  4 Copy quote

• To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

  James Elkins

  Memories, Artist, Ideas

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Brother, Flower, Princess

  18 Copy quote

• Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

  George Eliot

  Running, Air, Risk

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.

  William James

  White, Rights, Tides

  "Essays in Radical Empiricism". Book by William James, Ch. 12 : Absolutism and Empiricism, 1912.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Sit and be still
  until in the time
  of no rain you hear
  beneath the dry wind's
  commotion in the trees
  the sound of flowing
  water among the rocks,
  a stream unheard before,
  and you are where
  breathing is prayer.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Rain, Rocks

  "Given". Book by Wendell Berry, 2005.

  197 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying to become every other condition. A hot iron, for example, will strive to become as cool as its environment, and the cool environment will strive to become as hot as the hot iron. They compromise and find an equilibrium between the two, which is neither the one thing nor the other. This conspicuous fact is one of the most characteristic traits of Nature.

  Walter Russell

  Simple, Two, Iron

  12 Copy quote