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“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Would Be Speak Silence Heard Air Minutes Planets Mountain Breaths Envy Contrary Speaks Out Fresh Air Hermits Platitudes

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.”

Men Needs Heart Two Enough Happens Would Be Eye Felt Water Arms Safe Summer Bird Breaths Embrace Expected Endless Grass Necks Lazy Sunlight Her Eyes Insects Fragrance Enough Time Buzz Two Hearts

Author:Maggie Osborne

“Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!”

Men Feels Firsts Would Be Color He Man Spring Ears Breaths Notes Brilliant Gentle Dull Thrill Glimpse Awakened Orchard

Book:Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.”

Art Moments Would Be Breaths

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”

Ifs World Needs Humans Important Country Would Be Lasts Used Spirit Passion Particular Return Breaths Climate Nationalism Passages Dominant Human Spirit Pennies Homesickness

Book:Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

“But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For myself, I found that I had to put myself in the same physical or emotional state as Sid, in order to make that voice sound alive and authentic. So if there was a scene in which he was running, I would be running beforehand to sound out of breath. That's important because the audience can tell intuitively if it does not sound real.”

Ifs Doe Important Real States Would Be Running Order Fall Found Energy Sound Voice Audience Alive Emotional Scene Breaths Flats Usual Animated Sids

Author:John Leguizamo

“The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.”

Stills Would Be Lying Wonder Rocks Flow Rivers Breaths Rage Streams Turmoil Around The Bend

Book:The Rock and the River

Source: The Rock and the River

“I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.”

Source: Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )

“It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.”

People Writing Would Be Mistake Breaths

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”

Ifs Would Be Today Fighting Church Saws Right Now Breaths Breathe Gas Logical Nihilism Live For Today

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?”

Ifs Reason Would Be Draws Breaths Bother

Book:Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”

Ifs World Would Be Dies Responsibility This World Lessons Breaths Compassionate Taking Responsibility Love Each Other Mantras Morrie

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.”

“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts”

Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.”

Heart Body Would Be Eye Felt Brain Gone Alive Mouths Miracle Breaths Sat His Eyes Dry Nerves Throat Appreciated

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.”

Would Be Sea Figures Breaths Flying Chains Streams Printed Sharks Boxers Shorts Turtles Obscenity Smokers Piggy Sea Turtle

Book:Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel

Source: Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel

“As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.”

Way Trying Mean Moments Would Be Choices Given Felt Forever Alive Mines Kissing Breaths Leaving My Way Amazed

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend - maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt just seem washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breath in my lungs. And air sacs.”

Kind Made Whole Body Seems Would Be Felt Perfect Air Breaths Wings Cells Comparison Feathers Lungs Kinds Of Love Tsunami

Author:James Patterson

“Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.”

World Trying Hard Would Be Fire Our Lives Limits Breaths Breathe Rage Breathing Dragons Destroying Oxygen Lungs Unwise Life Span

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.”

Ifs War Would Be Running Enemy Feet Minutes Battle Breaths Soviet Attacking July Pivotal

Author:Lee Child

“This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.”

Would Be Night Middle Needed Quiet Skins Breaths Meetings Lips Pale Petals Middle Of The Night

Book:Mortal Danger

Source: Mortal Danger

“You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me!”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Would Be Today Wanted Lasts Night Love You Right Now Demand Ears Let Me Breaths Angry Lips Warm Dozen Cheeks Making Love Bent Last Night Misconception Grazing

Author:Johanna Lindsey

“A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would be able to organize both sides. I drew in a deep breath. We had the technology, the intelligence and the people—put enough sheep together and you have a herd, a force to be reckoned with. We needed a leader.”

People Enough Would Be Able Together Force Waiting Sides Leader Technology Amount Needed Majors Breaths Luck Rebellion Sheep Organize Both Sides Herds Deep Breath Coordination

Book:Inside: Inside Out\Outside In

Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In

“Beth,” he said simply, his flawless face lit up with anticipation. “There is no doubt in my mind that we belong together, but to spend the rest of my life with you would be an honor and commitment that I would cherish.” He paused, his clear, blue eyes luminous. My breath caught in my throat, but Xavier only smiled. “Beth,” he repeated. “Will you marry me?” The look on his face was pure happiness.”

“Clary glanced past him and asked, "Where's Magnus?" "He said it would be better if he didn't come. Apparently he and the Seelie Queen have some kind of history." Isabelle raised her eyebrows. "Not that kind of history," said Alec irritably. "Some kind of feud. Though," he added, half under his breath, "the way he got around before me, I woudn't be surprised.”

Ifs Way Kind Said Would Be Past Half Breaths Raised Queens Eyebrows Feuds Seelie Queen

Author:Cassandra Clare

“He was surrounded and they were hungry for what few brain cells he had left. But you know what? He wasn't about to give in or give up. If he was going out, it would be the way he had come into this world. Fighting for every single breath.”

Ifs Knows World Way Giving Would Be Fighting Left Brain This World Giving Up Breaths Hungry Cells Going Out Brain Cells

Book:Chronicles of Nick

Source: Chronicles of Nick

“Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.”

Ifs Thinking World Would Be Imagine Breaths Rip Unleashed

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I'll kill anyone who doesn't." Bann began to laugh into Raffin's shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, "Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?”

Wells Mean Said Would Be Able Courses Laughing Imagine Dying Breaths Deny Shoulders Secrecy Involvement Sideways Katsa

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.”

Love I Can Would Be Marriage Love You Waste Breaths Sweet Love Positive Marriage

Author:Elvis Costello

“Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.”

Knows Want Firsts Hard Would Be Running Wanted Games Conditions First Time Breaths Impact Psychological Opponents Wrestling Ucla

Author:John Wooden

“Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.”

Way Want Giving Children I Can Hard Would Be Interesting Stage Give Me England Breaths Pops Worthy Theatre Hopefully Combination Glorious Oscars Tennessee Happy Family Chekhov Scorsese

Author:Emilia Clarke

“I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice it would be: ‘Take a deep breath, the world is not ending – and do something with your hair.’ I had the same haircut from when I was a toddler all the way through high school, it was this weird side-parting. I didn’t like change.”

Ifs World Way Giving Looks Self Would Be School Hate Sides Advice Hair High School I Hate Breaths Mirrors If I Could Parting Deep Breath Haircuts Toddler Take A Deep Breath Younger Self

Author:Chris Colfer