Breaths Quotes - Page 30

• I'm a guy who gets more out of life than some people - more out of one big breath of fresh air than most people get from breathing in and out for a lifetime.

  Vince McMahon

  Air, Breathing, People

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• The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

  Joseph Haydn

  Drinking, Wine, Relatives And Friends

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• Letting the last breath come.
  Letting the last breath go.
  Dissolving, dissolving into vast space,
  the light body released from its heavier form.
  A sense of connectedness with all that is,
  all sense of separation dissolved
  in the vastness of being.
  Each breath melting into space
  as though it were the last.

  Stephen Levine

  Rest In Peace, Light, Space

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor

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• Words to deeds cold breath gives.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Deeds, Cold

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• Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Thinking, Soul

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• By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Heaven, Earth, Lasts

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, p.311, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.

  Greg Laurie

  Real, Sunset, Views

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• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas

  George Stapledon

  Country, Nature, Inspiration

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Blessed, Fall, Sunset

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever.

  B. M. Bower

  Strong, Spring

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• The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Air, Water

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Lying, Arms

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• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Walking Away, Wife

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• We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Eye, Miracle

  Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.44, Xist Publishing

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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  Lord Byron

  People, Giving, Mind

  'The Dream' (1816) st. 1

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• Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

  Jeff Gannon

  Reality, Rocks, Talking

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

  Damon Galgut

  Measurement, Language, Moments

  Damon Galgut (2011). “The Impostor”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.

  Anis Mojgani

  Song, Moving, Blood

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• Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.

  Mary Szybist

  Air, Taste, Without You

  Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.15, Graywolf Press

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• Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

  Barry Lopez

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.218, Open Road Media

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

  Conrad Gessner

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Song

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