Droeshout Engraving Quotes & Sayings

Depression is seductive: it offends and teases, frightens you and draws you in, tempting you with its promise of sweet oblivion, then overwhelming you with a nearly sexual power, squirming past your defenses, dissolving your will, invading the tired spirit so utterly that it becomes difficult to recall that you ever lived without it ... or to imagine that you might live that way again. With all the guile of Satan himself, depression persuades you that its invasion was all your own idea, that you wanted it all along. It fogs the part of the brain that reasons, that knows right from wrong. It captures you with its warm, guilty, hateful pleasures, and, worst of all, it becomes familiar. All at once, you find yourself in thrall to the very thing that most terrifies you. Your work slides, your friendships slide, your marriage slides, but you scarcely notice: to be depressed is to be half in love with disaster. — Stephen L. Carter

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen. — Miriam Toews

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us. — Beth Moore

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough. — Blaise Pascal

People who know they are insane are smart enough to fool society into thinking they aren't, — Cameron Jace

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. — Charles Caleb Colton

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well. — Rick Yancey

I haven't figured out a rainbow yet, They come so quickly and leave so soon. I never have enough time to capture them. Just a bit of blue here or purple there. And then they fade away again. Back into the air. — Suzanne Collins

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals — Rick Riordan

All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I'm shooting them on-sight. — J.D. Cunegan

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. — Artur Schnabel

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. — Laurence J. Peter

Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be
I weep to say it
Elizabeth I. — Bill Bryson

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton

Water flows because it's willing. — Marty Rubin

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth. — Mitt Romney