Respiration Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or…
— Michael Faraday
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the…
— Robert Boyle
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Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.
— Anthony Burgess
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No taxation without respiration.
— Tom Feeney
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Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
— Steve King
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Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an…
— Norman Cousins
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Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen,…
— Mark Kurlansky
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise…
— Umberto Eco
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The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never…
— Michael Crichton
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And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the…
— William Faulkner
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Ah, well.†He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration. With a nod and a…
— Cindy Gerard
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I’m telling you, you’d like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer’s. The other day, he was going off on…
— Richelle Mead
Who Wrote These Respiration Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 Respiration Quotes as follows: