"It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln."
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"Eat, breathe, meditate and love and you're all set"
"I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre"
"When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them."
"The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense."
"Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003"
"I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time."
"Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion."
"I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe."
"I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe."
"Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it."
"To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul."
"Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)"
"To breathe properly is to live properly."
"You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it."
"The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe."
"Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth."
"You breathe better when you're rich."
"L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead."
"Go slowly, breathe and smile."