Famous quotes containing the words left, breast and/or suspended:
“We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Morning Prayer, “General Confession,” (1662)
“Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
The sweetest singer in all the forest’s choir,
Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Love’s tale:
Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar.”
—Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)
“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)