#lung

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#death #easy #elbows #even #hands

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#hard #hard work #i #into #justified

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer. ↗

— Patti Davis

#ago #been #bush #bush administration #cell research

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#countenance #cry #down #exercises #eyes

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people. ↗

— John Boehner

#american people #democrats #job-killing #listen #lungs

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad. ↗

— James Cameron

#child #childless #die #even #film

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. ↗

— Willa Cather

#behind #cloak #down #due #edge

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#disintegrated #edge #floor #instance #into

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. ↗

— Anna Held

#am #bath #cold #courage #early

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. ↗

— King James I

#dangerous #harmful #hateful #lungs #nose