Respirating Quotes

#1. Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

Henry Rollins

#2. I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#3. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

#4. Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

Michael Chabon

#5. Promise me if I don't make you happy, you'll toss me aside, no matter how much pressure I put on you. Because even though I can be selfish, all I really want is for you to be happy.

Erin McCarthy

#6. As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was beautiful and ugly and true.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

Hedy Lamarr

#8. Douglas Mock has assembled the animal behavioural evidence in More than Kin and Less than Kind.6 In the Galapagos Islands young fur seals attack their newborn siblings, seizing them by the throat and tossing them into the air, killing them unless the mother seal intervenes.

Jonathan Sacks

#9. Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#10. I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

Chris Lowe

#11. I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Madeleine Albright

#12. I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

Raymond Depardon

#13. Valar morghulis," said Missandei, in High Valyrian. "All men must die," Dany agreed,

George R R Martin

#14. Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

Pablo Picasso