Gasp Quotes
78 quotes by 72 authors
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All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by…
— Deepak Chopra
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Fight to the last gasp.
— William Shakespeare
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many…
— Randy Alcorn
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this…
— John Herschel
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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and…
— Charles Dickens
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Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath. The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until…
— Matt Stone
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Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes…
— Stan Goff
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The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.
— Paul Dietzel
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Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and…
— Lyman Abbott
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Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?
— J. Lynn
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all…
— Toni Morrison
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel,…
— Cherie Priest
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Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my…
— Debby Applegate
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It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress,…
— Elizabeth Warren
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We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out…
— Learned Hand
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Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,…
— Gilbert Adair
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I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what’s happening in the mainstream is the…
— Thom Yorke
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