Breathing Quotes

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christian, Prayer, Alive

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Life, Love, Morning

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Charlie Sheen

Fire, Done, Words

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Rose, Sweets

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan

Stand, Driven, Touring

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck

Reason, Again, Hear

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
Bob Dylan

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

Love, Nature, Soul

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk

Work, Good, Home

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
Ron Perlman

Thankful, Whatever, Side

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
Ingrid Bergman

Away, Acting, Stop

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

Art, Spirit, Space

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin

Business, Keep, Worst

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

Happiness, Lost, Him

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

Love, Law, Learn

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino

Small, Film, Room

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy

Another, Her, She

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

Racism, America, Become

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette

Work, Best, Mind

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner

Life, Important, Winning

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton

Worth, Ideas, Air

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards

Life, Faith, Prayer

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
David Attenborough

Travel, Mean, Reason

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
Shania Twain

Open, Top, Mountain

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
David Duchovny

Truth, Help, Down

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
Ben Stein

Nature, Nothing, Greed

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
Tony Campolo

Time, Justice, Down

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey

Love, Deep, Young

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
Vera Wang

Life, Girl, Thought

Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
Ashley Tisdale

Older, Trouble, Growing

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