Breaths Quotes - Page 24

All night, my face next
to your mouth, I hold my breath,
listening to yours.

Imtiaz Dharker

Night, Listening, Mouths

Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.

Simon Mawer

Faith, Lying, Philosophy

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Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

Patricia C. Wrede

Marriage, Queens, Mean

Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he never completely leaves your thoughts. When you're apart, you want to be with him. When you're together, you're conscious of every move he makes, every word he says, and every breath he takes. Just the sight of him makes your heart race and your mouth go dry. And when he touches you, the rest of the world disappears.

Betsy Brannon Green

True Love, Moving, Heart

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Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.
What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.

Nas

Rap, Men, Hip Hop

Song: One Mic, Album: From Illmatic To Stillmatic: The Remixes

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It's a thin line between paper and hate,
Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

Nas

Hate, Rap, Snakes

Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

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With all this extra stressin
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
they punish the people that's askin questions
And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address.

Tupac Shakur

Stress, Grateful, Blessing

Song: Me Against The World

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Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Believe, Men, Ideas

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Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

Mari Evans

People, Magic, Singing

Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

Danny Wallace

Regret, Mistake, Moving

Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.

E. Stanley Jones

Fear, Air, Land

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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

Jan Karon

Retirement, Writing, Thinking

"Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

Christopher McDougall

Running, Art, Real

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And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?

Jann Arden

Falling In Love, Stars, Prayer

Song: It Looks Like Rain, Album: Living Under June, 1994

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Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Rumi

Writing, Thinking, Balls

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Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Memories, Inspiration

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A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles

Shadow, Humans, Human Beings

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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

Tori Amos

Music, Important, Sometimes

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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, Soul, Virtuous

'Songs and Sonnets' 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning'

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I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'

Venus Williams

Air, Littles, Sentimental

"Venus Is Back at the Controls". January 20, 2004.

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It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives that can help change our lives, improve our lives, and bring the Spirit into our lives. But we sometimes take them for granted. How grateful we should be for the blessings that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings into our hearts and souls. I would remind all of you that if we're ever going to show gratitude properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath

David B. Haight

Gratitude, Jesus, Father

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Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.

Ben Brantley

Be Prepared, Prepared

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Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.

Kabir

Faith, Kirtan, Students

Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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I am inside someone
who hates me. I look
out from his eyes. Smell
what fouled tunes come in
to his breath. Love his
wretched women.

Amiri Baraka

Hate, Eye, Smell

Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.

Mavis Gallant

Jobs, Writing, Paris

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