Jacobean Drama Quotes

#1. The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

Sigmund Freud

#2. Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

James Fenton

#3. Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Even in the cloudy sky, the sun never forgets to rise.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I think most documentaries are too long.

Marshall Curry

#6. To claim that a man may trust Christ without knowing whether or not he has trusted Christ, is to articulate an absurd idea. Of course a man can know whether or not he believes in the offer of salvation.

Zane C. Hodges

#7. I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

Laila Ali

#8. If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

Danny Meyer

#9. There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Acting is always a challenge.

Robert Downey Jr.

#11. I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Seneca The Younger

#12. If we can say, 'I loved, and I received a lot of love,' then great. That's enough.

Jennifer Aniston

#13. You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Edgar Magnin

#14. Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.

John Webster

#15. My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.

Tom Colicchio

#16. The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Charles W. Chesnutt