Sigh Quotes - Page 5

• When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

  Hideo Kojima

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.

  James Wright Foley

  Shining, Friendship Love, Half

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• I put all my sighs in a lockbox

  Al Gore

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• For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.

  Franz Liszt

  Moving, Passion, Musical

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• Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

  Marc Chagall

  Prayer, Sadness, Giving

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• Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Blood, Forever, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 81, 1895.

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Opportunity

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• Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

  Margaret Visser

  Breastfeeding, Satisfaction, Bread

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Waiting, Earth, Surprise

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• We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

  Joshua Kadison

  Beautiful, Prayer, Eye

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• Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

  Santoka Taneda

  Deep Breath, Howl, Haiku

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• Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

  Roy H. Williams

  Opportunity, Air, Breathe

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• I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.

  Wells Tower

  Girl, Cat, Cutting

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• Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

  Charles Simeon

  Prayer, Broken, Soul

  Charles Simeon (1838). “Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: Together with One Hundrer Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University”, p.196

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• Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, War, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and opinions”, Wings

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• Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

  Machado de Assis

  Generations, Next, Next Generation

  Machado de Assis (1963). “The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories”, p.113, Univ of California Press

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• It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

  Dr. Seuss

  Book, Relief, Needs

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl.

  P. C. Cast

  Girl, Drunk, Vision

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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Laughing, Tolerance

  "The Summing Up". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1938.

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• Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Thinking, Phones, Missing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.204, Penguin

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• How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Home, Kissing, Simple

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• Hey, big spender,” I said. He looked appreciative but more amused than anything else. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a one dollar bill. “Hugh,” I said. “Don’t insult me.” With a sigh, he produced a five and tucked it underneath my bra strap. “Hey, Seth,” Cody suddenly said. I looked up and saw Seth standing in the doorway. A look of comic bemusement was on his face. “Hey,” he said, studying me. “So…you’re paying for dinner?

  Richelle Mead

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.113, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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