Breathing Quotes
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This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.
P. C. Cast
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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
Seth Godin
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You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.
Paul Dudley White
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Sam had a child’s faith in the healing power of the morning, she thought later, as she lay sleepless at his side; he believed that a good night’s sleep could iron out all the accumulated wrinkles of the day. She resented his ability to fall asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow while she tossed restlessly in bed; his even breathing was an affront to her wakefulness.
Bel Kaufman
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I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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And every winter change to spring.She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.
Robin Williams
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Living is not breathing but doing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
Ray Bradbury
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You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart.
Nikephoros of Chios
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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin
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Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale I could feel...
Ellen Meloy
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Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.
Judith Jamison
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Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
Alexander Graham Bell
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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
Thomas Hood
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I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'
Eve Ensler
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Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
William Stafford
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In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Henry Louis Gates
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I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.
George Steinbrenner
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To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
Hilary Swank
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?
Haruki Murakami
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As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers