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  • By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant

  • In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

    Waiting   Pace   Disease  
    Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”
  • Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

    Strong   America   Unions  
    "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)
  • The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions
  • There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

    Patriotic   Eye   Wind  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics
  • The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

    Church   Littles   Scene  
  • He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

    Grace   Violin   Beloved  
    Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.650, Simon and Schuster
  • This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

  • I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

  • A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

    "Byzantium" l. 15 (1933)
  • You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

    Romantic   Song   Lonely  
    Song: All The Things You Are
  • Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

    Life   Waiting   Enjoy  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”
  • We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

    Death   Tears   Widows  
    Ovid (1836). “Ovid”, p.259
  • The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all

    Song: Rolling In The Deep, Album: 21, 2011
  • The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

    Ambitious   Busy   Stairs  
  • What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

  • I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

    Thinking   Puppets   Nine  
  • Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.

    Book   Blood   Long  
  • Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

    Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”
  • PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

    Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.311, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • But Clary never found out what it wasn't, because there was a cry of "Jace!" and Alec appeared, breathless from pushing his way through the crowd to get them. His dark hair was a mess and there was blood on his clothes, but his eyes were bright with a mixture of relief and anger. He grabbed Jace by the front of his jacket. "What happened to you?" Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?" Alec looked at him, not lightly. "You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?" Jace suggested.

    Eye   Dark   Hair  
  • Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

    Book   Long   Gone  
  • I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

    Thinking   Sea   Ducks  
  • the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

    Summer   Dog   Sorry  
  • I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

    Texas   Paris   Silence  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.122, Canongate Books
  • A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.16, e-artnow
  • Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.

    Team   Mean   Men  
  • We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  • Miss Cecily," she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. "Oh, dear," said Tessa. "I have that effect on women," Will said. " I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me." "I can still change my mind," Tessa said sweetly. "Don't you dare-," he began with a breathless half laugh.

    Princess   Eye   Hands  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.544, Simon and Schuster
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