#breath

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#breathless #cannot #element #excited #grasp

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #breath #child #complacent #days

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. ↗

— Diane Lane

#anything #arrive #breath #hands #i

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#free #give #give me #huddled #masses

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#before #breath #broke #cricket #had

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#abraham lincoln #breathe #into #life #lincoln

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#all night #because #both #breath #could

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#breath #fit #football #get #i

It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#been #before #breath #busy #day