Top 100 Quotes About Pulse
#2. When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.
Daniel Tosh
#3. I don't just want
your heart
I want your flesh,
your skin
and blood and bones,
your voice, your thoughts
your pulse
and most of all your
fingerprints,
everywhere.
Isobel Thrilling
#4. Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pulse of their voices set the blood flow to her heart.
Ann Patchett
#5. There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Laurence Sterne
#6. Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.
Henry Ward Beecher
#7. Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
Marianne Williamson
#8. I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.
Joanna Lumley
#9. I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by
Libba Bray
#10. My pulse is buzzing and my stomach is a riot of butterflies and half-digested peanut butter cookies.
Autumn Doughton
#11. She takes my hand, kissing each finger, each knuckle and my pulse throbs inside my wrist. Please. We already know each other, so well. I'm ready to give the last part of myself to you.
Annie Brewer
#12. The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
Walter Savage Landor
#13. Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
Douglas Brinkley
#14. It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.
Laini Taylor
#15. Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
Langston Hughes
#16. It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
Cyndi Lauper
#17. All minds pulse in a unique way, just as every lighthouse in the world has a unique signature. Some minds pulse consistently, some erratically. Some are lukewarm, some are hot. Some flare out, some are very nearly not there. Some stay on the fringe, like quasars.
David Mitchell
#18. Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
Joyce Carol Oates
#19. Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie."
The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened from "slow walk" to "fifty-meter-dash."
I turned and found that-yes, indeed-the god Anubis had crashed our dance.
Rick Riordan
#20. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
Sylvia Plath
#21. I swallowed, feeling my pulse race, and gave silent thanks that there were no eyewitnesses to my blushing, which could have set a cigar alight even a foot away.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#22. Soon the mercilessly even drumbeat fill'd the Day, replacing the accustom'd rhythms of country People with the controlling Pulse of military Clock-Time, announcing that all events would now occur at the army's Pleasure, upon the army's schedule.
Thomas Pynchon
#23. The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
#24. Mosca sniffed at perfection. Perfection had no pulse and no heart.
Frances Hardinge
#25. I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
Meryl Streep
#26. You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.
Elizabeth Berg
#27. Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.
Helen Keller
#28. With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.
Ben Elliot
#29. In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#30. There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan ... Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#31. Things that are different, things that don't fit into our own typical surroundings, do tend to set off some sort of subliminal trigger in most people. Your pulse beats faster, you become more aware of your environment, more in touch with your fight-or-flight response.
Rysa Walker
#32. Need was Adam's baseline, his resting pulse. Love was a privilege. Adam was privileged; he did not want to give it up. He wanted to remember again and again how it felt.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
James L. Petigru
#34. Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.
Kim Edwards
#35. Irial!"
"Still here." Irial didn't open his eyes, but he smiled a little.
"You're an ass," Niall said, but he kept his hands on Irial's chest so that he could feel both pulse and breath.
"You too, Gancanagh," Irial murmured.
Melissa Marr
#36. Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.
Winston Churchill
#37. There's an us?"
"As far as I'm concerned ... " He leaned forward, his mouth inches from mine, and my pulse spiked. "There's nothing but us.
Rachel Vincent
#38. Art is a staple of mankind ... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
Jamake Highwater
#39. In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
Isaac Marion
#40. Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches than of pease and pulse.
Walter Scott
#42. I thought about checking for a pulse, but decided that could wait. I kicked the knife so it slid under the heavy cabinet
Katie Alender
#43. The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.
Dick Cavett
#44. The first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt.
James Henry Breasted
#45. The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.
Jodi Picoult
#46. I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.
Roy Lee
#47. I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.
James Cosmo
#48. The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.
Marc Newson
#49. If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.
Max Lucado
#50. I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it - there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world - it's a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.
Cate Blanchett
#51. I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.
Anthony Carmona
#52. Nina screamed, a howl that tore from the black space where her heart had beat only moments before. She searched for his pulse, for the light and force that had been Matthias.
Leigh Bardugo
#53. Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Edward Young
#54. Rhythm is the pulse of music and its secret heartbeat.
Reynaldo Hahn
#55. Shiroyama's heart stops. The earth's pulse beats against his ear.
An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ...
... a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings.
David Mitchell
#56. Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
Andrew Vachss
#57. Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.
Stephenie Meyer
#58. His icy lovecicle pressed against her dewy portal, demanding admittance to her passion chamber. How did a guy with no heartbeat, no pulse, get an erection? Who cares?
Nine Naughty Novelists
#59. Come back to the heartbeat, the pulse, the rhythm we all walk to, regardless of nation or color. Come back to the breath - inhale, take the world deep into your lungs; exhale, give yourself back fully. This is what the body says: release the peace that lives within your skin.
Gayle Brandeis
#60. I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.
Frank Delaney
#61. People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.
Tori Amos
#62. vague as a soft copper pulse of moonlight through blossoming sea coast fog.
Ellen Hopkins
#63. Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.
Jack Welch
#64. Keely's pulse quickened. A stab of apprehension. He was the same at any live performance, suddenly anxious for the players. So stupid; these people were professional muscicians. But the way his throat narrowed they could have all been kds at a school recital. His kids.
Tim Winton
#65. Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure which, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature.
Pawan Mishra
#66. The Reeds take people in like they're family. Anyone. The only requirement is that you have a pulse. And if you don't have a heart, they'll give you theirs.
Tammy Falkner
#67. The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.
Mickey Wyte
#68. His arms wrapped around my waist from behind and he kissed my neck again, closer to the wound this time. My pulse accelerated. I wanted him to bite me; I wanted to be his.
Joann I. Martin Sowles
#69. I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me.
C.N. Faust
#70. The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles of blood under a magnifying glass.
Gregory Maguire
#71. But it was more than a planet; it was the living pulse beat of an Empire of twenty million stellar
systems. It had only one, function, administration; one purpose, government; and one manufactured product, law.
Isaac Asimov
#72. He stood with his arms folded across his chest, a pose that accentuated the hard, supple muscles of both. The angel was like catnip for any woman with a pulse. I made a concentrated effort not to ogle. As
Ella Summers
#73. The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York ... It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.
Charles A. Beard
#74. My pulse pounded in my ears, heat smoldering deep in my belly. I'd never been so tempted. This is a dangerous game.
Lisa Kessler
#75. Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.
Maya Angelou
#76. man's presence by running either up or down. What a humiliating quandary! Breathe! Just breathe! He is but a man. A flesh and blood man. She took deep, steadying breaths, hoping to still her racing heart and erratic pulse before blood shot from her ears. She was determined to
Kitty Margo
#77. I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
Ann Voskamp
#78. The roar of the crowd had thundered through both fighters' veins like a second pulse. Strike
Robert Galbraith
#79. Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.
Thomas Friedman
#80. Jealous?"
"Maybe."
"No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.
Rachel Caine
#81. Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#82. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words 'you are still alive.' You are still alive. Act like it.
Rudy Francisco
#83. The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
William Faulkner
#84. I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by
Take the word
of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
your dark scribbled flags
but take
my hand
Adrienne Rich
#85. The things that made thier pulse quicken were all the wrong thing..
Laini Taylor
#86. Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
#87. Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.
Thomas Pynchon
#88. At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.
George Leonard
#89. she wound her hands through his hair and cradled his head against her while his merciless tongue of fire flicked against the wild pulse between her legs. "Kieran,
Madeline Martin
#90. I'll get my swim suit," I manage to choke out.
The sound of his sexy chuckle sends my pulse spinning into overdrive. "Don't forget your arm floaties, too.
Nicole Christie
#91. Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.
Don McLean
#92. In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.
Bill Cosby
#93. I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.
Ryan Kwanten
#94. He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises seemed to pulse with my heartbeat.
Rachel Vincent
#95. The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.
Hubert Van Zeller
#96. You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.
Marilyn Hacker
#97. Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. "Don't let go.
G.S. Jennsen
#98. We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.
Suzanne Weyn
#99. There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Gertrude Stein
#100. I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
Quincy Jones
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