Breath Quotes

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
Jim Valvano

Same, Tell, Honor

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
Rand Paul

Home, Government, Enough

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great, Reality, Joy

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville

Hate, Heart, Hell

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

Trouble, Police, Yesterday

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk

Lightning, Breathed

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.
Jill Scott

God, Here, Step

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!
Jennifer Aniston

Time, Lost, Weak

Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.
Demetri Martin

Bad, Another, Balloon

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.
Christy Turlington

Life, Experience, Through

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Live, Two, Between

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul

Love, Character, Enemy

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
Mike Love

Sleep, Deep, Down

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne

Men, Sad, Friends

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri

Wind, Direction, Name

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life, Love, Time

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Muhammad Iqbal

Long, Two, Brave

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
Laura Linney

Good, God, Nice

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
Larry David

Idea, Space, Unaware

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.
Julia Roberts

Deep, Couple, Daughter

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Love, Friends, Sun

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
Stokely Carmichael

Run, Generation, Running

Find patience in the breath of life.
Ryunosuke Satoro

Life, Patience, Find

My life was changed in one breath from God.
Donna Summer

Life, God, Changed

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
Lewis Thomas

Through, Path, Moment

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
E. W. Howe

Faith, Experience, Learning

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Paracelsus

Life, Through, Another

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
Anne Lamott

Life, Good, Live

Coffee gives me bad breath.
Norah Jones

Bad, Coffee, Gives

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