John Donne Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Air Quotes

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

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The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Eye Quotes , Air Quotes

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Moon Quotes , Air Quotes

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Feet Quotes , Air Quotes

I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods - our air, our water, making sure that people are safe - that require to have some regulation.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Strong Quotes , Air Quotes

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Air Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Air Quotes , Taverns Quotes

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Air Quotes , Whales Quotes

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Air Quotes

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , War Quotes , Air Quotes

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Air Quotes , Flesh Quotes

You can shoot a show and have it not air. It's not real until it's airing.

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Tags : Adam DeVine Quotes , Real Quotes , Air Quotes

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Air Quotes , Charity Quotes

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Reality Quotes , Air Quotes

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Music Quotes , Air Quotes