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Pulse proximity is not intimacy. -- Stefan Molyneux
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. -- Adam Smith
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. -- Sarah Bernhardt
But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse. -- Emily Dickinson
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently. -- Roy Lee
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you. -- Dwayne Johnson
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. -- Thomas Hardy
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. -- Benjamin Disraeli
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. -- George Gissing
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago -- Christina Rossetti
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. -- Laurence Sterne
If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. -- Gelett Burgess
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse -- George Galloway
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. -- Conrad Gessner
If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments. -- Tracy K. Smith
I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished. -- Henry Van Dyke
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat. -- Tamora Pierce
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. -- Bernard DeVoto
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. -- Alyssa Milano
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. -- Etty Hillesum
. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. -- Sara Zarr
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. -- Sylvia Plath
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm. -- Jeanette Winterson
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners. -- Rob Bell
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species. -- Andrew Vachss
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself. -- Larry Williams
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. -- Gelett Burgess
It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create. -- Cyndi Lauper
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse. -- George Galloway
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. -- Diane Paulus
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. -- Robert Fulghum
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. -- Conrad Gessner
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country. -- Thomas Friedman
Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing. -- Jeff Goodell
When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive. -- Phil Anselmo
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. -- Quincy Jones
I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse. -- Joanna Lumley
Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left. -- Alexis Tsipras
Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. -- Frank Gaffney
I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift. -- R. Kelly
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 we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt. -- Clayton Christensen
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy. -- Xavier Rudd
Conscience is the pulse of reason -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rhythm is the pulse of music. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
art is the pulse of a nation. -- Gertrude Stein
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat. -- Barbara Deming
If you have a pulse, you have a purpose! -- Rich Wilkerson Jr.
You just have to believe in a corporate pulse. -- William Boughton
One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. -- Joseph Conrad
If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain. -- Max Lucado
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse. -- George Herbert
Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse. -- Rachel Caine
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse. -- Seneca the Younger
The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better. -- Hubert Van Zeller
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations -- Arthur Koestler
I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? -- Ann Voskamp
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. -- Wendell Phillips
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. -- Langston Hughes
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse -- Samuel Shem
I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it. -- Stephan Jenkins
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse. -- Ambrose Bierce
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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health. -- Yip Harburg
You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse. -- Drew Houston
We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate. -- Suzanne Weyn
The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection. -- E. L. Doctorow
I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance -- Paul Newman
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse. -- Igor Stravinsky
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We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Clearly she didn't get out into society nearly enough. Her pulse had no taste in men whatsoever. -- Sabrina Jeffries
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. -- Walter Savage Landor
I think that Jerry Bruckheimer just kind of has his finger on the pulse of what America wants. -- Boti Bliss
In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine. -- Isaac Marion
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. -- Joseph Addison
A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe. -- Lisa Kleypas
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself. -- Larry Williams
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. -- Pat Benatar
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse. -- William Ralph Inge
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. -- Aaron Sorkin
I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started. -- Frank Delaney
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph. -- Rene Burri
Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse. -- Louis MacNeice
Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better. -- Hubert Van Zeller
The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him -- Elizabeth George Speare
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse. -- Eudora Welty
The pulse of lapping water; slow waves invisible in the dark; two entangled minds; two lives; two beating hearts. -- D.J. MacLennan
Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse. -- Marilyn Hacker
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. -- Alexander Smith
We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny. -- Shawn Wayans
Why is this so hard?" I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard. -- Rachel Vincent
In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee. -- Bill Cosby
Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before! -- Robert Blair
There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band. -- Robert Fripp
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. -- Octavius Winslow
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death. -- William Wordsworth
When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart. -- Daniel Tosh
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse. -- Lynn Swann
You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry. -- Jeaniene Frost
In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check? -- Laurie Faria Stolarz
This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry. -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly. -- Joanne Fluke
As desires dance with dreams, as intentions dance with glances, as shivers dance with breaths, so does every pulse dance when movements flirt with feet. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. -- Winston Churchill
New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. -- Raina Telgemeier
Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. -- Virginia Woolf
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end. -- Edward Young
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body. -- John Henry Newman
The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. -- Gertrude Stein
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it! -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I really want to hit him, she said.Bloodthirsty, he murmured, taking her hand, running his thumb over the pulse racing at her wristI like it. -- Jill Shalvis

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