Preindustrial Quotes

#1. In preindustrial times, according to one study, inequality in landed property was greater in the Appalachian backcountry than anywhere else in America,

John Alexander Williams

#2. In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

Tino Sehgal

#3. In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

David Riesman

#4. The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

Richardson Wright

#6. Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.

Irene Nemirovsky

#7. What are you saying?" He fought to keep his voice under control. "You love me but there's no hope for us?

Jojo Moyes

#8. When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

Anthony Hemingway

#9. Here we are now, entertain us.

Kurt Cobain

#10. I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Jules Verne

#11. Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

Zeena Parkins