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Quotes About Breath

All that is proscribed, all that is upheld, the yogas based on such limbs as the control of breath or other things, all that is false.
~ Daniel Odier
I told them what I had discovered about Nabokov's sentences: Because the word string and the thoughts behind the words are so original, the reader's brain can't jump ahead. There is no opportunity to make assumptions, no mental leapfrogging to the end of the sentence. So the reader is suspended in the perfect moment of now. You can only experience now. The sentences celebrate the absolute instant of creation. "It takes your breath away.
~ Daniels, Leslie
All you ever longed for is Before you in this moment If you dare draw in a Breath and whisper "Yes.
~ Danna Faulds
If you're short of breath, it's not because you aren't breathing in enough—it's because you're not breathing out enough.
~ Danny Dreyer
In most cases, having a shortness of breath isn't because you're not breathing in enough—it's because you're not breathing out enough. If you don't empty your lungs fully with each exhale, you'll be "recycling" some of the carbon dioxide left in your lungs from the previous breath, which will lower the concentration of oxygen getting to your muscles.
~ Danny Dreyer
Purse your lips like you're trying to blow out a candle and when you exhale, pull your belly button in toward your spine by contracting your abs. Use your hand to feel this motion. This will force all of the used air out of the bottom of your lungs.
~ Danny Dreyer
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
~ Dante Alighieri
It's like we're on the moon," Sarah whispered. Michael squeezed her elbow. "Except that we can breathe, there are no stars, and there's still gravity." "Yeah, other than that, it's like we're on the moon.
~ James Dashner
Thomas's mouth dried up—he'd seen them face to face, remembered it all too well; he had to remind himself to breathe. The others in the room were still; no one made a sound. Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow.
~ James Dashner
the breath of 7 billion people, our pets and our livestock puts into the already overburdened atmosphere 7 billion tons of CO2 a year.
~ James E. Lovelock
The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they're the teeth of the demon as he slides down the flue.
~ James Ellroy
Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. The repo man is gone. All I had to do was show him My favorite gun And tell him about My conviction That a shame-faced galaxy Mutters a homily of return.
~ James Galvin
Some days I want to put my head in the sand. There's too much pain out there, there's too much that scares me. But I wouldn't be able to breathe with my head in the sand, and I wouldn't be able to hear or see or smell. The world is a lovely place...despite the sadness it holds for each of us, despite the terrible things we do.
~ James Howe
There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
~ James M. Barrie
the quality of onset determines the quality of the ensuing phonation.
~ James Stark
It was so dark I could hardly see her. The weight of her arm was wonderfully comfortable, and her gin-sweet breath was warm on my cheek.
~ Donna Tartt
affectionate exasperated breath I knew
~ Donna Tartt
His chest heaved, and he coughed. You have coughed before, his mother said. It is a sign of weakness. Control it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning;s thinnest sliver of light appeared silently. Several billion trillion tons of super hot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold, and slightly damp. There is a moment in ever dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.
~ Douglas Adams
There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation hold its breath.
~ Douglas Adams
En todos los amaneceres hay un momento en que la luz flota y la magia es posible. La creación contuvo el aliento.
~ Douglas Adams
There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath
~ Douglas Adams
There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath. The
~ Douglas Adams
He took a deep breath. He didn't need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.
~ Douglas Adams