When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.


Cormac McCarthy

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When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
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Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.
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One of his lungs had collapsed. He couldn't breathe. You could see him struggling for air.
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She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et...
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air
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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and...
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When someone is getting too power hungry. Sit them down, give them the remote, make them a sandwich,...
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This gives the Pakistani economy fresh air to breathe; it has room to recover.
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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every...
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There's no use complaining about the air when it's the only thing to breathe.
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My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
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Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
UNKNOWN
The description of the air and sand going in his mouth when he inhaled while he was under the ground...
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And wrath has left its scar -- that fire of hell
Has left its frightful scar upon my soul.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is...
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A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is not...
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Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
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Think of the air you breathe as love. Changes everything.
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No one is nothing. Everyone has a place and a purpose. Some choose their purpose and others have it ...
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Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air w...
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Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that...
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B...
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One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answere...
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and ...
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Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy str...
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or...
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far t...
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I learned vulnerability is a bit like those Russian nesting dolls, the ones that get smaller and sma...
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How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing ...
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When they're four, five, six-thousand feet up in the air, there's nothing you can do for them.
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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our...
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason ...
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I know that when he was in the opening ceremonies, he must have just been overcome.
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In this particular development, they will add a very nice amenity and an opportunity for the residen...
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Love is in the air; oh, please let me breathe!
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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains ...
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As long as air moves in and out of my lungs … as long as I breathe, I will fight for you. I will f...
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It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independen...
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The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air
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And how will you know when you've found the elusive someone?
I suspect she will be like air. Li...
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I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Man...
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COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to br...
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Time for lunch. Take me somewhere good. Somewhere Italian."
She chose Vine, one of the cafes on...
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I needed him like I needed air to breathe.
C.J. ENGLISH
Sometimes its really hard to breathe even in the fresh air.
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Our miners followed these procedures to the letter, and that's what saved them. They sealed themselv...
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason h...
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We're going to be fine without Ryan McCarthy. You don't replace Ryan McCarthy player for player. You...
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When things break down ... he can pull (the ball) down and make something out of nothing.
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Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells...
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One has to assume that because we haven't seen them they have actually left the bay and the Corpus C...
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea ...
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of ...
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But this is the final preparation before the Olympic Games. After the third minute, I couldn't breat...
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If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCa...
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the ...
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We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.
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I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and woo...
RICHARD NELSON
In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!
HELEN DUNMORE
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon the...
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign your...
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WHEN ONE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE ONE HAS EVERYTHING TO GAIN !
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None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; ‘And hangeth the earth upon nothing.’ J...
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When you're out fighting a fire for hours and hours with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, maybe bef...
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Wife and servant are the same, but only differ in the name: For when that fatal knot is tied, which ...
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Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.
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Well, all I need is the air I breathe and a place to rest my head.
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Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; ...
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I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings br...
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There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality...
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Breathe in, breathe out. Without the fire, the phoenix never rises from the ashes. Let the fire scor...
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The losers here are workers who have to breathe in this unhealthy air.
DONNA REYNOLDS
You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he h...
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he h...
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May the winged birds that move in the air and in the sky descend; beasts of prey and insects shall s...
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Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to tak...
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There was smoke, and people were screaming and wanted to jump. When we came out there was nothing le...
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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a...
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We didn't make our run early enough. And when we did make our run, we just didn't have enough left a...
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I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
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I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER
In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY
They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY