Coverall Seat Quotes & Sayings

There are ... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that this or that writer is said to create not other than while imbibing intoxicating drink or that his fantasies are the result of overexcited nerves and resulting fever. But who can fail to know that, while a state of psychical excitement caused by the one or other stimulant may indeed generate some lucky and brilliant ideas, it can never produce a well-founded, substantial work of art that requires the utmost presence of mind. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

John Owen brings helpful detail to our discussion about sin and temptation. According to Owen, temptation is "any thing, state, way, or condition that, upon any account whatsoever, has a force or efficacy to seduce, to draw the mind and heart of a man from its obedience, which God requires of him, into any sin, in any degree of it whatsoever."20 Note that any temptation can lead a person into any sin. It is a force. And forces must be reckoned with, not passively accepted. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I began to understand that glory was a Gorgon who could turn you to stone if you failed to continue to perform — Joel Dicker

He reminded himself as he turned another corner - glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there - the deed was the thing, not the praise. — Raymond E. Feist

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
[The little cannot be great unless he devour many.] — George Herbert

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater. — Steven Berkoff

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you funk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing. It — C.S. Lewis

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in. — Po Bronson