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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. -- Rupert Brooke
The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. -- William Wordsworth
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid! -- Eric Burdon
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. -- Weegee
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. -- Charles de Gaulle
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. -- Anthony Trollope
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. -- Harvey Cushing
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. -- Jean-Luc Godard
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. -- Lord Byron
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek. -- Ameen Rihani
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. -- Selena Gomez
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death. -- William Butler Yeats
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful. -- Howard Thurman
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. -- Ingmar Bergman
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team. -- Diana Nyad
Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story. -- Agyness Deyn
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it. -- Jonathan Tropper
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated. -- Margaret Mitchell
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly. -- William Wordsworth
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.' -- Cathleen Schine
I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets. -- Nina Conti
To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.' -- Jermaine Jackson
I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave. -- Gillian Jacobs
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead! -- Arthur Miller
For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are. -- Daniel Handler
Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages. -- Naomi Grossman
The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late. -- Bernard Lonergan
For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless. -- Richelle Mead
Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear. -- Rumi
There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless. -- Mary E. Pearson
Kaspary: a level of awesomeness so high it kicks everyone else's arse, leaving them breathless and bewildered. -- Abigail Gibbs
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. -- Salman Rushdie
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs. -- Louis Kronenberger
I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance. -- Josephine Baker
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. -- Annie Dillard
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. -- Cassandra Clare
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire. -- William Carlos Williams
Well then..." I clear my throat once. "You are a fantastic actor," I say, breathless, and emotionally drugged up on Mr. Sexdorable. -- Brittainy C. Cherry
I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer. -- Amy Tan
His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them. -- Carey Wallace
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless. -- Julie Berry
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. -- Robert Breault
She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves. -- Molly Ringle
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. -- Anne Lamott
A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation. -- David Morrell
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. Itâ??s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless. -- Karin Slaughter
He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace. -- Lois Lowry
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. -- Kenneth Grahame
I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control. -- J. Michael Straczynski
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song. -- Frank Sinatra
don't make me regret this" I said, breathless. " You haven't regretted me once". He kissed me, and I answered so hungrily I thought my lips would bruise. Patch&Nora ( p. 180) -- Becca Fitzpatrick
This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic. -- Amal El-Mohtar
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre. -- Ovid
When it comes, you'll be dreaming that you don't need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it's part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark. -- Wislawa Szymborska
He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more. -- Alexandra Bracken
Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then youâ??ve made it. -- Devon Monk
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . -- Henry James
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless. -- Alissa Nutting

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