Best Breathed Sayings
223 Breathed quotes by 182 unique authors
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Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep…
— Samuel Beckett
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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
— Sebastian Faulks
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned…
— Mervyn Peake
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I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up,…
— Jaimal Yogis
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People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had…
— George William Russell
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February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
— Zhuangzi
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that…
— Edmond Rostand
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You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give.…
— Bob Dylan
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
— Bill Ayers
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
— James Russell Lowell
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve,…
— Juvenal
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
— John Milton
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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
— Black Elk
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A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was…
— Paul Engle
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have…
— Stephen King
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I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them…
— Joel Osteen
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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's…
— Jerry Saltz
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I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I…
— Sting
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In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your…
— Matt Taibbi
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