Heartbeat Quotes - Page 12

• A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Sermons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing health care based on deliberate misinformation about the nation's uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Reform, Care

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• I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

  Linda Evangelista

  Tunnels, People, Suffering

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• A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?

  George Carlin

  Dream, Heart, People

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• You kind of can't help who you'll fall in love with. I'd date someone who isn't in the business in a heartbeat.

  Selena Gomez

  Falling In Love, Helping, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Song, Pain, Unique

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• Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

  e. e. cummings

  Hands, Mountain, Despair

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Struggle, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

  Denis Johnson

  People, Littles, Might

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.91, Macmillan

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• ...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Sound, Essentials

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.60, Anchor

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• Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  Lauren Groff (2012). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.188, Random House

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• That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him. And I listened to her. Why do you think Henry and I get along so well? I'm not saying that I don't love him, because I do. But if I ever left Henry or something, God forbid, ever happened to me, I don't think he'll be able to go on. And that guy would risk his life for mine in a heartbeat.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mom, Love You, Heart

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• She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.

  Markus Zusak

  Fall, Doors, Ears

  Markus Zusak (2015). “I Am the Messenger”, p.102, Random House

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• He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Voice, Laughing

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.1691, e-artnow

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• In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.

  Melissa Marr

  Add, Weight, Firsts

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• Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Thinking, Long

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Protect You, Protect, Ifs

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• How do you know that? (Stryker) I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Tears, Scream

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.46, Macmillan

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• It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Smart, Blue

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• I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Breathing, Smell, New Life

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.3, Scholastic Inc.

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• I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn't. Wrath and Beth

  J.R. Ward

  Fighting, Wrath, Skirts

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Opposites, Heaven, Stripes

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• A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

  Garth Nix

  Fall, Tears, Faces

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.160, Hot Key Books

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• Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Body, Arms

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