Pietas Quotes

#1. Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.

Richard M. Weaver

#2. Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

Ronald Syme

#3. Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
[Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Henri Nouwen

#5. Will you draw me a sheep?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

Walter E. Williams

#7. I think I was 5ft 9in at birth.

Peter Crouch

#8. It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

Julie Powell

#9. The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one:
ETC.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. I love Ellen [Page] like family. And even if we don't hang out all the time, she's still just somebody that always has a place in my heart.

Evan Rachel Wood