Heartbeat Quotes

• We were putting some balls on the ground. The picks, as many times as we get our hands on the ball, we can't put them on the ground. That changes the momentum of a game in a heartbeat.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Game
  • Hands
  • Changes

• And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.

  

  Dava Sobel
  • Heartbeat
  • Tempo
  • Timepieces

• 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
  • Clear

• But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Life
  • Future
  • Heartbeat

• Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

  

  Michael Gambon
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Actors

• 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
  • Heartbeat

• The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Violence
  • Voice

• I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Soul
  • Heartbeat
  • Rabbi

• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Revolution
  • Heartbeat
  • Working People

• I'm a really athletic person - I'm not that coordinated, but I'm really athletic, so I would play a superhero doing my own stunts in a heartbeat. But hopefully not taking swings at people. That's not a good idea for me.

  

  Selma Blair
  • People
  • Superhero
  • Hopefully

• In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • You
  • Lost
  • Loved

• One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Feelings

• There's a moment on the arch of a jump, when you are neither rising nor falling. All you can see is the sky. All you can feel is the air and all you can hear is your heartbeat. That is all you are. Muscle and motion. It's called the deadpoint. I live for that.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Moments
  • Muscles
  • Rising

• I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

  

  Suheir Hammad
  • Dance
  • Heartbeat
  • Persist

• With today's technology, you can actually see the baby grow, move, and hear their little heart beats.

  

  Stephen Fincher
  • Technology
  • Baby
  • Heartbeat

• Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Breath
  • Heartbeat

• We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Elements

• Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

  

  Nicole Williams
  • Lose
  • Caring
  • Heartbeat

• At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

  

  Eva Green
  • Human
  • Choose
  • Heartbeat

• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Trust
  • Creature
  • Rush

• We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Science
  • Breaking
  • Heartbeat

• Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Beautiful
  • Humanity
  • Heartbeat

• I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Control
  • Force
  • Boundaries

• The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

  

  David C. Hardesty, Jr.
  • Because
  • Principles
  • Still

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