Breath Quotes - page 2

What can a soldier do who charges when out of breath? (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. View quote
Anne Brontë
A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death. View quote
William Wordsworth
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. View quote
William Wordsworth
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. View quote
Kenneth Rexroth
To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning! View quote
Margaret Thatcher
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted. View quote
Rebecca Wells
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath. View quote
Lisa Bonet
My life was changed in one breath from God. (Donna Summer)
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. View quote
Amy Sedaris
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. View quote
Christy Turlington
I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can exhale and chill out. You have to breathe through life, man. Have fun. View quote
Lee Haney
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. View quote
Natalie Goldberg
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I remember when I moved in you And the holy dove she was moving too, And every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah. View quote
Leonard Cohen
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance. View quote
John A. Macdonald
I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next 1000 years, & exhaust it. How sweet to think of! My extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it - for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. (Henry David Thoreau)
It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. View quote
George Eliot
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings... View quote
George Eliot
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. View quote
Francis Parkman
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. View quote
George Carlin