Pulse Quotes

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.

In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

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.

Why is this so hard?” I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they'll accept from you.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

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.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse at your throat Deep in the heart of the land.

If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

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.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations