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Quotes About Breath

Fear is excitement without the breath,
~ Carolyn Elliott
the Roanoke valley where mountains hold the breath of the dead between them and lift from each morning a fresh bandage of mist.
~ Carolyn Forché
Okay," I gasp. "I can't really breathe, but other than that, okay." "Breathing's overrated," Gabriel advises me."I'm discovering that right about now with this damn tie.
~ Carolyn MacCullough
I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
So, we'll go no more a roving     So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving,     And the moon be still as bright. II For the sword outwears its sheath,     And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe,     And love itself have rest. III
~ George Gordon Byron
you can use that energy to deal with your current situation, maybe with plenty left over. Breathe deeply. Let the feeling of arousal and clarity, triggered by the release of adrenaline into your bloodstream
~ George Leonard
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
~ George Macaulay Trevelyan
Behold, in yon stripped Autumn, shivering gray, Earth knows no desolation, She smells regeneration In the moist breath of decay.
~ George Meredith
Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
~ George R.R. Martin
Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name.
~ George R.R. Martin
Barefoot surefoot lightfoot, she sang under her breath. I am the ghost in Harrenhal.
~ George R.R. Martin
Melisandre gazed up at it, her breath a warm moist cloud in the air. "This is my place as it is yours, and soon enough you may have grave need of me. Do not refuse my friendship, Jon. I have seen you in the storm, hard-pressed, with enemies on every side. You have so many enemies. Shall I tell you their names?
~ George R.R. Martin
It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
~ George R.R. Martin
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
~ George Santayana
Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
~ George Strait
Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
~ George Strait
Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
~ George Strait
Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away.
~ George Strait
Life's not the breath you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
~ George Strait
Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
~ George Strait
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
~ George Walker Bush
It is like dust.  You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it.  It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth.  But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.  To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be forever on the go.  And so people are always 'on the go'.
~ Georges Bernanos
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Breathe deep. Especially when faced with an angry situation, you need to breathe—not just to calm down emotionally, but to keep your lymph moving. Holding your breath impairs flow. The largest lymph vessels and main lymph channels in your body are located in your chest. Whenever you take a deep breath, it moves the lymph fluid along, and the one-way valves in these tubes keep lymph from going backward.
~ Gerald M. Lemole