#breath

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. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#also #applies #apt #breathless #clearly

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#fantastic #i #just #just do it #like

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath. ↗

— Fred Durst

#breath #i #just #look #now

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

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#bravest #break #breath #catch #deliberately

If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet. ↗

— Jay Leno

#bad breath #breath #dog #i #i do

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