Lungs Quotes - Page 16

• Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Breathing, Earth

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• For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  St. Jerome

  Dignity, Empty, Stomach

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• You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Cancer, Thinking

  "Go ahead, hit me". Interview with Peter La Fleur, poststar.com. December 29, 2005.

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• I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Oxygen, Vision, Ears

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• He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Air, Opposites

  Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.80, St. Martin's Press

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• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

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• Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

  Joseph Pilates

  Balance, Organs, Rounds

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

  Laurence Olivier

  Heart, Cymbals, Spirit

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• Count your blessings, but not out-loud, at the top of your lungs.

  Demetri Martin

  Blessing, Count Your Blessings, Loud

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2012

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• Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

  Willie Nelson

  Air, Pieces, Flesh

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• I could've enjoyed a cigarette if I smoked back before everyone knew it was bad - say, like, 1923. Everybody smoked back then. There was no medical information against it; they had no idea - it was a paradise. It was a smoker's paradise: 'They're taking my lung out next week. I don't know why. Doctor thinks maybe I'm brushing my teeth too often, but I can't help it because, for some reason, my breath smells like I licked a monkey's ass.

  Arj Barker

  Thinking, Doctors, Next Week

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• It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

  Elliott Smith

  Sound, Cold, Made

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• I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Pneumonia, Mad, Tape

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• I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.'... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'

  George Carlin

  Father, Thinking, People

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• We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Air, Rivers

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination.  A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

  Edmund Gosse

  Air, Cells, Oxygen

  "Father and Son".

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• And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

  Black Thought

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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  Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

  Sarah Kay

  Air, Wind, Waiting

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

  Scott Jurek

  Powerful, Mind, Legs

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.160, A&C Black

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• The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.

  Ellen G. White

  Inspiration, Blood, Color

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• Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

  Ellen G. White

  Morning, Flower, Exercise

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.775, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you're doing Plyometrics you can jump higher and run faster and your heart and lungs are going to kick the panties off of anybody else that tries to get out there without it.

  Tony Horton

  Running, Heart, Trying

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• To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Self, Alive

  Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers

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• I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Cancer, Lung Cancer

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• The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

  Scott Mandia

  Cancer, Fall, Smoking

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