Quotes About Contractions

#1. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Erma Bombeck

#2. I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

Madonna Ciccone

#3. Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

Erma Bombeck

#4. The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been,

Ruth Ahmed

#5. Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

Moshe Feldenkrais

#6. We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.

Hans Berger

#7. We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

Matthew McConaughey

#8. Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

Pico Iyer

#9. I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

Emma Rose Kraus

#10. It was a Wednesday, the fluttering contractions beginning less than a half hour after returning from lunch with a few of her coworkers. They had all ordered Thai from

Andrina Coy

#11. Television is full of contractions.

Bill Bernico

#12. They're basically trick contractions. They make you think you're going to finally exorcise the demon from your belly, but they're just a constant false alarm.

Lauren Blakely

#13. There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

Brock Clarke

#14. His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram ... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history ... and then he was promptly ... simply ... forgotten to death.

Paddy Chayefsky

#15. most often the kinds of pains we encounter in meditative attention are not indications of physical problems. They are the painful, physical manifestations of our emotional, psychological, and spiritual holdings and contractions.

Jack Kornfield

#16. I had forgotten about the baby. Until then she had been giving birth to birth - to contractions and noises and liquids. There was someone in there. We

Miranda July

#17. As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

Christy Turlington

#18. Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

Jason Silva

#19. Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.

August Krogh

#20. Then I remember:These people are Brazilian-they come out of the womb salsa-ing to the rhythm of the contractions.

Amanda Hudson

#21. Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

Vanna Bonta

#22. Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Merle Shain

#23. His words had caused her to laugh, cry, yell, throw things across the room, and feel sympathy, empathy, anger, arousal and disgust. It was the best non-novel she had ever read.

Ella Dominguez

#24. Don't waste your most important resource - your life.

Elizabeth George

#25. Now we are beginning to come to a point where human consciousness is moving back to female energy. The Earth is crying out very loudly, and the herbalists are springing up. Women are becoming healers again. That energy is coming back.

Sun Bear

#26. I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

Ian Doescher

#27. As long as you're happy, who cares what everybody else is doing?

Shannon Stacey

#28. Exhale ... and give all worries to God and the angels.

Doreen Virtue

#29. I didn't become an actor because I thought I'd make lots of money.

Richard C. Armitage

#30. There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Reese Witherspoon

#31. Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?

Mark Twain

#32. The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic body of knowledge and what science contains is certain or proved.

Kedar Joshi

#33. We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Os Guinness