Bated Breath Quotes

#1. Chad, honey, are you still here?"
"I'm waiting with bated breath."
She listened for a moment, then smiled and said, "He's as anxious as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.

Ashlyn Chase

#2. To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery. She

Leo Tolstoy

#4. With bated breath we wait for the scent of perfection, accompanied by the freshness of love.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#5. No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand. Writing is forever and always a choice - your choice.

Beth Mende Conny

#6. may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

John Jackson Miller

#7. I'm waiting with bated breath to hear what you'll say next." "Ah, sarcasm, how refreshing," he said pleasantly.

Jen Turano

#8. To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel's wings with bated breath.

Ace Antonio Hall

#9. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

Joel Osteen

#11. Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

Rachel Held Evans

#12. Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

T.D. Jakes

#13. What does it matter, she thought, if businesses are left unattended, if people are not always as we want them to be; we need the time just to be human, to enjoy something like this: a boy chasing ants, a dry land drinking at last, birds in the the sky, a rainbow.

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Mary MacLane

#15. The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Walter Lippmann

#16. This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#17. If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Toni Morrison

#18. I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

Patti Smith

#19. One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Taylor Caldwell