The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and elect….

When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back..

Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. ….

As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most pe….

She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beati….

Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contrib….

The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any re….

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate..

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollo….

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's th….

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physici….

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first..

The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination o….

Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here..

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best.

When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it fo….

He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We both know I’m not a gentleman.” “Yeah. Okay, let me out. I’m tired.” “There’s somethi….

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be maro….

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life..

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize the….

We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires..