Gasping Quotes
54 quotes by 48 authors
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We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging…
— Lynn Abbey
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I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.
— Mariska Hargitay
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Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad…
— Martin Amis
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I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made…
— E. Stanley Jones
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In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping…
— Reinhold Messner
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I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast…
— Jean Paul
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I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?"…
— Stephanie Perkins
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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves…
— Andy Behrman
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Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings…
— Evelyn Underhill
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We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.
— Peter Habeler
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Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the…
— Albert Camus
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This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes…
— Andy Greenwald
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As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also…
— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!
— Adela Popescu
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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep…
— D. H. Lawrence
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When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of…
— Robert Graves
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Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines…
— Laurie R. King
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As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter…
— Joseph Heller
Who Wrote These Gasping Quotes
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