Quotes with breath

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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Anne Campbell They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • John Ruskin To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Jean Paul 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
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Richard A. Nelson When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
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  • Alighieri Dante Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Charles E. Popplestone You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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