Lungs Quotes - Page 9

• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Wind, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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• And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

  Homer

  Here I Am, Sucker, Great Simpsons

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• Were I
  as quiet as thunder,
  how I'd wail and whine!
  One groan of mine
  would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.
  And if
  I'd end up by roaring
  with all of its power of lungs and more -
  the comets, distressed, would wring their hands
  and from the sky's roof
  leap in a fever.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hands, Sky, Roaring

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

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• If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

  Luis Bunuel

  Drinking, Order, Smoking

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• Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.

  Kate Moss

  Cancer, Anorexia, Lung Cancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

  Loni Anderson

  Cancer, Disease, Involved

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• If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

  Danny Glover

  Kids, Racism, Environmental

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Knowledge, Love Is

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• The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

  Gary Haugen

  Passion, Our World, Long

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• I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack,
  And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black.
  So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked.
  I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke,
  And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince,
  The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced.
  The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket,
  In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

  GZA

  Cancer, Rain, Rap

  Song: Life Is a Movie

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• It's a thin line between paper and hate,
  Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
  Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
  Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Snakes

  Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Song, Elderly

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• Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

  Sara Genn

  Color, Design, Favorite Color

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• Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

  Susan Bordo

  Cancer, Men, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

  Reinhold Messner

  Spiritual, Floating, Mist

  Reinhold Messner (2001). “Moving Mountains: Lessons on Life and Leadership”, Executive Excellence Publishing

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• That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

  Bill Hicks

  Littles, Quitting, Loses

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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Running, Cancer, Smoking

  Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, 35, July 19, 1961.

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• Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.

  Joseph Pilates

  Horse, Heart, Cat

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• The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

  Joseph Pilates

  Perseverance, Effort, Pilates

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• The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.

  Robert Boyle

  Air, Blood, May

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• We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood ... It is very likely that it is the fine nitrous particles, with which the air abounds, that are communicated to the blood through the lungs.

  John Mayow

  Science, Air, Blood

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• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  John Millington Synge

  Sister, Giving, Lord

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.

  Michio Kushi

  Yoga, Thinking, Breathing

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• We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Party, Opportunity

  "Obama takes shots at 2016 Republicans over middle class brand". www.businessinsider.com. February 20, 2015.

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• the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

  Marya Mannes

  Team, Heart, Technology

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