Heartbeat Quotes - Page 6

• Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

  Don McLean

  Philosophy, Sea, Rivers

  Song: Tapestry

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• Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?

  Buddy Holly

  Baby, Unanswered Questions, Lips

  Song: Heartbeat

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• If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

  Amy Winehouse

  Singing, Heard, Like Me

  "Charmed and dangerous". Interview with Garry Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2004.

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• Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

  Aidan Chambers

  Opportunity, Missing, Chance

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

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• How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Mother, Baby, Healthy

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• 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

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• You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

  David Gemmell

  Sweet, Laughter, Children

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 18, 1984.

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• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Time, Heart, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in order to get covered as a candidate in this election. It's pretty outrageous. And our media could solve that in a heartbeat if they actually opened it up, you know, but they don't. So I think that's more commentary on the crisis in our media.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Media, Order

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

  Q-Tip

  Moving, Firsts, Kind

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

  Tom Coburn

  Real, Issues, Our Society

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

  Tom Coburn

  Justice, Definitions, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

  Tom Coburn

  Issues, Brain, Favors

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• You turn on the television, it's like, "Woah is me! God almighty, we're awful." We are so down and out we are - name me a country in the world, name me one leader anywhere in the world who wouldn't trade places in a heartbeat. We by far, we're going to own the 21st century.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Names, Leader

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.

  John Densmore

  Littles

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We already have people with Parkinson's that have chips installed in their brain to control their tremors. We already see people have pacemakers to help their heartbeats. I mean we're already putting these technologies into our bodies. It is only going to deepen.

  Jason Silva

  Mean, Technology, Phones

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

  Aaron Dontez Yates

  Dark, Hot, World

  Song: My World

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• If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  People, Thousand, Remove

  "Boondock Saints Interview: Norman Reedus & Sean P. Flanery". Interview with Alex Kecskes, acedmagazine.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

  John O'Hara

  Lying, Book, Sleep

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.15, Penguin

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• There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

  Susan Cheever

  Mother, Baby, Human Life

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

  Joy Browne

  Life Changing, Mean, Dedication

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• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mean, Blood, Pills

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• It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Dream, Heart

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• If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Heart, Purpose, May

  "Song: 'Why Are The Drums So Silent'". 2000.

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• There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

  Allan Gurganus

  Ears, Pages, Kind

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