Their Breath Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a…
— Silas Weir Mitchell
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Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard…
— John Wooden
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The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect…
— Joseph Haydn
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My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under…
— Andy Rooney
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I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can…
— Lee Haney
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Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of…
— Judith Sargent Murray
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how…
— Ajahn Chah
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Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.
— Tony Gaskins
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There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak…
— Woodrow Wilson
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no…
— Emily Dickinson
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
— Larry David
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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those…
— Charles Dickens
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Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
— John Updike
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers…
— Elizabeth Zimmermann
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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two…
— Neil Gaiman
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Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream…
— Robin Hobb
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We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did…
— Jennifer Egan
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When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you…
— Confucius
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