J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop"
Heartbeat quotes
Heartbeat
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught."
Nicole Williams
Author
"Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat."
Lynn Abbey
Author
"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life."
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"This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it."
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"I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile."
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"I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care."
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"Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat."
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"The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat."
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"A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat."
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"I would've done it for you in a heartbeat."
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"I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat."
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