Pulse Quotes - Page 2

• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

  George Galloway

  Fall, Men, United States

  "Interview with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. May 27, 2005.

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• I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Blow, Hammers, Forests

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Wall, Food, Heart

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• Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hair, Worry, Stealing

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• 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

  Heart, Cat, Hands

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

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• I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Cities, Usa, America

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• The Universe has a pulse and rhythm of its own, and it wants to carry you with it-so if you dance with Spirit, just remember to let it lead.

  Sonia Choquette

  Want, Spirit, Remember

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

  Alyssa Milano

  Men, Careers, Culture

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• The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Sky, Body

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.12, e-artnow

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• For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

  George Gissing

  Courage, Men, Blood

  George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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• I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Shows

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• I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

  Robert Fulghum

  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

  Alexander Smith

  Happiness, Glimpse, Stealing

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

  Eudora Welty

  Learning, Childhood, Moments

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Secret, Exaltation, Answers

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.326, Booklassic

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• My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Lying, Hero, Writing

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• Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Mean, Expression, Two

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• Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Religion, May

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Thinking, People, Digital

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “The Time Travelers: Volume One”, p.147, Laurel Leaf

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• For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Experience, Axioms

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Creative, Calming, Accepting

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• You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Imagination, Way

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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• Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

  Elena Ferrante

  Pain, Joy, Skins

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.164, Penguin

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• It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.

  Laini Taylor

  Radiation, Burned, Ifs

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.241, Hachette UK

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