Pietist Quotes

#1. It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

Terence McKenna

#3. Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

Jeff Cooper

#4. Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

Aneurin Bevan

#5. I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

Robert E. Howard

#6. If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn't feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I'm comfortable with. Just the two of us, here in the dark.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. There are a lot of actresses who can wear their Uggs during a scene, and I only do that if they make me do that - like if I'm working with a shorter man and they request me to take off my shoes.

Alysia Reiner

#8. A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.

Anonymous

#9. Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.

Pamela Aidan

#10. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gretchen Rubin