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“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.”

Men World Should Has Beens Father Bits Should Have Breaths Complexity Pockets Maps Devoted Should Have Been Roaming Family Man

Author:Christian Bale

“In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.”

Men Trouble Breaths Police West Blow Yesterday Stealing Catching Arrested Dolls Virginia West Virginia

Author:Conan O'Brien

“All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.”

Men Writing Book Self Problem Running Reflection Red Breaths Critical Bus Examination Self-examination

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories

“It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.”

Men Love Life Women Loses Love Is And Love Breaths Mood Feel Good Life Or Death

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Believe Cold Draws Gun Breaths Believe In Me Tombs

Author:George S. Patton

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”

“[He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan thoughts, for God had only to utter a word and it was done. Only man had He shaped with His hands, using the dust He created to form His most precious and amazing creation. Only man was molded and loved into being, the breath of life in his lungs given by God.”

Thinking Men Done Hands Form Given Heaven Stars Creation Breaths Shining Dust Lungs Pagan Hands Of God

Author:Francine Rivers

“For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.”

Men Fields Eternal Mass Breaths Excuse Egypt Infection Poisonous Sprouts Swarms

Book:The Wisdom of Kierkegaard

Source: The Wisdom of Kierkegaard

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

Men Giving Trying May Said Moments Might Remember Desire Forget Fields Fool Victory Battle Despair Illusion Breaths Philosopher Conquer Folly Now And Then Forget It Fury Mausoleum

Author:William Faulkner

“In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)”

“When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.”

Knows Men Art Said Might Eye Wise Hair Lovers Hundred Breaths Wit Tricks Vanity Life And Death Afternoon Her Eyes Pauses Rhyme June Sonnet Being Wise

Book:This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.”

Men Should Mean Remember Kings Breaths Brave Woods Noble Warrior Miserable Ran Flames Dragons Good Man Followers Beaten Comrade Kinship

Book:Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction

Source: Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction

“You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.”

Knows Men Should Firsts Kind Stills Enough Moving Wise Flower Terrible Breaths Notes Educated Demon Educated Man Fear Me

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.”

Thinking Men Mind Lost Felt Loss Possibility Breaths Forgotten Connected Passing Passings Mourning Floats Sydney

Book:Body Surfing: A Novel

Source: Body Surfing: A Novel

“A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.”

Men Want Looks Said Enough Might Nice Kissing Breaths Kissing Someone Mogget

Book:Sabriel

Source: Sabriel

“I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!”

Men Feels Should Looks Heart Faces Hate Heaven Felt Saws Cold Breaths Rage Hardest Thee Brown Steel Haste Cursing Frigid

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?”

Ifs Men Made Pain Lasts Suffering Crime Judging Arms Breaths Train Hated Disgusting Another Man Hateful Shameful

Author:Janet Fitch

“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.”

People Knows Men World Moments Next Born Boys Destiny Saws Fate Kings Breaths Innocence That Moment Betrayed Arthur Camelot

Book:Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

Men Littles One Day Kissing Consequence Romantic Breaths Breathe Lost Love Romantic Love Kissing You Romantic Kiss Kissing Her Romantic Kissing Cute Kiss Cute Kissing Shadowfever

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

“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.”

Men May Littles Hands Might Memories Doubt Depends One Day Kissing Mouths Consequence Breaths Breathe Lanes Good Kisser

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!”

Men Hate Common Air Cry I Hate Breaths Uncertainty Prize Rotten

Book:Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.”

“All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.”

Men May Matter Seems Lasts Fall Sun Imagine Missing One Day Mountain Shadow Rain All Things Breaths Shining Significant Streams

Book:Princeps' Fury

Source: Princeps' Fury

“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.”

Ifs Men Years Made Stills Two Eye Dog Evolution Red Breaths Green Distance Terror Flesh Teeth Despite Meals Owners Wilderness Yellow Stink Gleam Nuisance Poke Flicker Campfire

Author:Neil Gaiman

“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”

Men Real Breaths Breathing

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken.”

Men Behinds Boys Nice Security Painting Mets Breaths Warm Shoulders Necks Mistaken Stolen Very Nice Doorways Hale Istanbul Security Systems Nice Man Vermeer

Book:Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.”

Ifs Men Needs Children Said I Can Lasts Girl Voice Wonder Dog Mines Serious Breaths Mad Dear Folks Wit God Love Relax Priests Bites Shopping Riot Bait Granny Bickering Grans

Author:Tamora Pierce

“And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.”

Men Way Wells Heart Able Earth Fall Felt Taken Doubt Ten Horse Breaths Satisfaction Seconds Falling Off

Book:Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series

Source: Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series

“She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.”

Men Feels Moments Earth Pain Lasts Law Joy Pieces Dying Sweet Hair Draws Stones Breaths Moved Finals Shoulders Inevitable Thrown Iron Nerves Submit Agony Precise Heartbeat Magnet Deep Breath

Book:We

Source: We

“We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.”

Men Sick Breaths Warm Necks Making Love Bats Rats Kinky Sick Man

Author:Christine Feehan

“No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.”

Knows Men Lasts Water Breaths Death And Dying Drowning Drop Of Water

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”

Knows Men Play Shows Seems Might Eye Action Together Form Mother Black Grief Shapes Rivers Breaths Mood Suits Woe Not Alone Solemn Cloaks Windy Good Mother Dejected

Author:William Shakespeare

“Bless you, daugher of man," Carter said, his eyes luminous and almost silver now. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes and caught my breath. His lips were both burning hot and icy cold.”

Men Said Eye Cold Hot Breaths Down And Lips Caught Burning His Eyes Silver Bless Foreheads Carter Luminous Icy

Author:Richelle Mead

“When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Believe Two Mother Sound Window Breaths Smell Checks Climbs Bedroom Nasty Pulse Pupils Deceased Sound Mind Recently Deceased

Book:The Steel Remains

Source: The Steel Remains

“You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he was saying?" "Not a lot of the time, no," Halt said. Crowley shook his head in wonder. "It's just as well he didn't go into the Diplomatic Service. We'd be at war with half a dozen countries by now if he was on the loose." Will drew a deep breath to begin talking. He noticed that both men took an involuntary half step backward and he decided he'd better try to keep it as simple as possible.”

Ifs Men Trying Years Wells Said War Country Enough Young Simple Half Talking Wonder Steps Six Decided Breaths Young Man Dozen Halt Diplomatic Deep Breath Involuntary

Author:John Flanagan

“He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly long, falling over the collar of his shirt. Intense brown eyes, almost the color of amber, surveyed the diner slowly before coming back to her. Electricity sizzled in the air then, as though invisible currents connected them, forcing her to recognize him on a primitive level. Not that she wouldn’t take notice anyway. He was power, strength, and so incredibly male that her breath caught at the sight of him.”

Source: Elizabeth's Wolf

“Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.”

Men Firsts Persons Today Christian Black White Crime Breaths Committed Stores Instance African American White Man Convenience Relevance Arrested Ancestry Scottish Descent

Author:Dave Eggers

“I turned around slowly, and looked up at him. He stiffened and sucked in a shallow breath. After a moment, he touched my cheek. "Such naked pain," he whispered. I turned my face into his palm and closed my eyes. His fingers threaded into my hair, cupped my head, and brushed the brand. It heated at his touch. His hand tightened at the base of my skull and squeezed, and he raised me slowly to my tiptoes. I opened my eyes and it was my turn to inhale sharply. Not human. Oh, no, not this man. "Never show it to me again." His face was cold, hard, his voice colder.”

Men Humans Hard Moments Shows Hands Eye Pain Faces Turns Voice Hair Cold Breaths Raised Fingers Naked Brands Touched Cheeks Shallow Palms Skulls Inhale Tiptoes

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators

“She sat down at the table and spent a good hour talking about her husband. She told Judith how they'd met, how he relentlessly pursued her, and finished by mentioning just a hundred or two of his special qualities. The only thing the man wasn't capable of was walking on water… yet. Judith made that comment when her friend paused for breath.”

Men Made Two Water Hours Quality Talking Special Walking Mets Husband Capable Hundred Breaths Tables Finished Sat Comment Pursued Walking On Water

Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

“Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.”

Men Trying Heart Running Secret Wonder Mets Breaths Bones Defined Demon Fog Choke Bargaining Marrow Secret Places

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.”

Men Hands Eye Faces Sweet Promise Weakness Breaths Moved Warm Every Man Necks Her Eyes Fists I Promise Curls

Book:Ransom

Source: Ransom

“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”

Knows Men Children Girl Fighting House My Own Brother Safe Beats Breaths My Brother Uncles Daddy Cousin God Knows My Cousin Girl Child

Author:Alice Walker

“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”