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Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.”

Light Found Perfect Air Fine Pure Breathe Colour Warmth Severity Lancelot

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.”

“When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.”

Should Truth Air Lips Breathe

Author:Stanisław I Leszczyński

“Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.”

Men Effort Air Breathe Eagles Euler

Author:Francois Arago

“Argument is to me the air I breathe.”

Air Argument Breathe

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.”

Children Home Air Cost Essentials Tasks Various Breathe Expected Household Attending Rearing A Child

Book:Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today

Source: Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today

“To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!”

Needs Freedom Air Breathe Lungs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.”

Men Doe Seems White Air Tree Share Dying He Man Red All Things Breaths Breathe Beast White Man Numb

Author:Chief Seattle

“Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.”

Needs Air Red Army Breathe Bread Aircraft Red Army

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.”

Ifs Book Spiritual Reading Asks Air Holy Breathe Stores Holy Books Spiritual Reading

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.”

Enough Given Air Land Wind Appreciate Rivers Environmental Delight Breathe Be Good Smoke Streams Gas Chemicals Stewardship Chimneys Stewards Whirlwind

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.”

“The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.”

People Thinking Knows Running Water Air Planets Drink Breathe Insane Destroying Drink Water

Author:Assata Shakur

“The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.”

Air Breathe Vegetables Garlic Aroma Provence

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.”

“It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.”

Giving Natural Gone Wise Air Influence Fashion Goodness Breathe Noble Nobility Impart Ethereal

Author:Felix Adler

“We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.”

Ifs Men Wells May Stills Law Poor Race Practice Wife Air Position Flow Breathe Envy Chains Ashamed Dominion Polygamy Monogamy Narrow-minded

Author:George A. Smith

“If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.”

Ifs Wells Social Realizing Air Tree Breathe Forests Preserves Ecology Owl Habitat

Author:Sam Keen

“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.”

Wells Made Kids Rooms Class Air Streets Style College Corners Breathe Phrases Composition Lively Manuals Freshman Dialect Slang Street Corners College Freshmen

Author:Donna Tartt

“I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”

Character Bigs Novel Written Air Breathe

Author:Norman Rush

“Everything that breathes, breathes by air and cannot live without air; similarly all reasonable free creatures live by the Holy Spirit, as though by air, and cannot live without Him. "Every soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit." Recognise that the Holy Spirit stands in the same relation to your soul as air stands in relation to your body.”

Soul Body Spirit Air Holy Creatures Relation Breathe Your Body Your Soul Holy Spirit Reasonable Live By Recognise

Author:John of Kronstadt

“The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.”

Water Air Angel Breathe

Author:Mark Twain

“Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.”

Air Financial Credit Breathe Financial Markets

Book:The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

Source: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

“Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.”

Believe Different Fall Air Track Finished Breathe Doomed

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.”

Ifs Giving Order Wish Air Breathe Lungs Fresh Air

Author:Catherine Ponder

“Preach the gospel to all the world! It is [as] free to all mankind as the air we breathe.”

World Air Mankind Breathe

Author:Erastus Snow

“Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.”

Humans Helping Spirit Forget Air Encouragement Breathe Human Spirit Oxygen Forget You

Author:Jeremy Riddle

“I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.”

Men Kind Water Air Men And Women Species Fishes Breathe Convinced

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air. (on Wayne Rooney)”

Ifs Knows Wells Moments Player Air Goodness Breathe Developing My Time Scotland Wayne Fresh Air Rooney

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.”

Too Much Pieces Air Careful Bones Breathe Flesh Pot Lungs Overdue

Author:Willie Nelson

“What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.”

Air Figures Distance Breathe Atmosphere Splendid

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Anybody who wants to go into any business, I always say that you have to make a commitment to yourself to make it a part of your nature like the air you breathe. I don't mean that lightly. It's hard. You have to do the work, and a lot of it is going to be during your own personal downtime. And you have to be interested in it. You can never study enough, and you can never learn enough.”

Want Mean Hard Enough Study Air Commitment Breathe Downtime

Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

“I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone out or taking a little walk to get some fresh air. I take this time to clear my head, breathe and reassess the problem and how I'm feeling.”

Mean Littles Moments Feelings Problem Remember Walks Clear Air Solutions Chaos Breathe Fresh Air

Author:Allison Holker

“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.”

Earth Water Ability Animal Environment Air Conditions Planets Plant Surface Breathe Surroundings Our Planet Plants And Animals

Author:Yaya Toure

“Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.”

Air Breaths Connected Breathe Breathing Acknowledge Communion

Author:Sharon Gannon

“People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.”

People Way May Matter Water Realizing Air Drink Ocean Breathe One Way Cycles Perpetual Far Away

Author:Walter Munk

“After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.”

Steps Air Disease Clean Breathe Pollution Carbon Save A Life

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Sometimes Culture White Support Air Privilege Breathe Convince Racist White Privilege

Author:Nate Parker

“I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.”

Ifs Needs Space Too Much Air Breathe

Author:Truman Capote

“We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.”

Universe Support Air Amount Blessed Breathe Despite Atmosphere Oxygen Envelopes

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

“God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So to confess is to breathe in and to ask God to forgive me of my sins. And as we breathe out we breathe out the impure air and breathe in the pure air. I would say the pure air is knowing that God has forgiven us of our sins.”

Asks Sin Knowing Air Pure Forgiving Breathe Faithful Forgiven Forgive Me God Is Faithful Unrighteousness

Author:Vonette Bright

“Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the casual glimpse from the stranger or the life and death of the close relative; to breathe, for a moment, a Chekhovian air, it's all song and ice.”

People Book Moments Inspiration Film Song Courses Memories My Own Known Air Mets Stranger Breathe Ice Life And Death Relative Life Experience Glimpse Casual

Author:Suhayl Saadi

“I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.”

Plans Air Trump Mets Breathe

Author:Reza Aslan

“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.”

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