Bresee Youth Quotes & Sayings

Experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons and ending with the day in which he found himself. — Peter Matthiessen

The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

With no gods to pray to, Susan prayed to her father. — Stephen King

He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. — Sherman Alexie

breathe in experience breathe out poetry — Muriel Rukeyser

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them. — China Mieville

I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that. — Sarah Silverman

Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene.
The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she's the voice of authority here, in the Salle d'Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.
On either side of Paul as he cuts are two long rows of feet: yellow, strong, calloused, scarred where blisters have formed and burst repeatedly. Since August they've done a lot of marching, these feet, and all their marching has brought them to this one place. — Pat Barker

And the miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place, or event becomes not only satisfying but also more harmonious, more peaceful. — Eckhart Tolle

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory. The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated upon the bleak, dark night. — Charles Dickens