Breathing Quotes

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.