“I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.” KnowsMeanHas BeensTakenDependsBreathsGrantedBelovedInstantCrashTaken For Granted Author:Rebecca Wells
“Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.” FeelsLooksPersonsSometimesMomentsCommonOur LivesFieldsChangedDependsWindowBreathsClueBrief Moments Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.” PeopleMadeBigsRaceKnownLordDependsBreathsHatsPlusBreedingTexanAnthropologistsPropagation Author:J. Frank Dobie
“God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.” KnowsWantHumansMomentsBeautifulChoicesHuman BeingsLove YouDependsCreatingBreathsFantasticBreathingRejectsClayLumpsGod ImageConstrainBeautiful Images Author:Desmond Tutu
“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. “It was like being owned.” Some women like that.” Not me.” Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.” I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.” One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.” Right, and one day my prince might come.” I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.” MenMayLittlesHandsMightMemoriesDoubtDependsOne DayKissingMouthsConsequenceBreathsBreatheLanesGood Kisser Author:Karen Marie Moning
“All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.” FirstsRealityGovernmentNamesQualityOpinionDutyDependsElementsDrawsBreathsProsperityPublic OpinionFree Government Book:Essays, English and American Source: Essays, English and American