Buttermere Quotes & Sayings

In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The — C. G. Jung

Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view? — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me. — Daria Snadowsky

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself. — Dee Brown

I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius. — Thomas Armstrong

There's two of me. The person I carry around like a dead carcass inside of me and the one I show to others. — Francisco X Stork

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Crying feels so good sometimes, and I do it when I'm happy, sad, stressed, scared. I like to believe that tears are my friend. — Renee Marino

I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear.One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on. — Christopher Vokes

One or two of the villagers have seen it, too, though not as clearly as he did. Old Buttermere said it was a white *thing*, that glided over the ground, and vanished into the shrubbery.'
'And a very good place for it to vanish, too,' said Hugo, wholly unimpressed. 'Give me a sheet, and a night without too much moonlight, and I'll engage to do the same! — Georgette Heyer

The most refined shedders of blood have been almost always the most highly civilized gentlemen. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered. — Robin Sharma

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know. — Ronald Meyer

In his imagination he performed the 'composition of place' reconstructing the scene from what he could remember of the classics, so laboriously and unprofitably rammed into his head at Harrow. — Dion Fortune