Pieterszoon Quotes & Sayings

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero. — James Belushi

I looked at him and did not answer; there flashed through my mind a quick, running picture of all the squalid hovels in which I had lived and it made me feel more than ever a stranger as I stood before him. How could I have told him that I had learned to curse before I had learned to read? How could I have told him that I had been a drunkard at the age of six? — Richard Wright

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy. — Geoffrey Household

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you? — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all. — Idries Shah

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances. — Eugene H. Peterson

To be and not to be, that is the answer. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

She gave a brittle smile. "The curriculum can be challenging, but I have no doubt that Sophie will do very well."
Never had encouragement sounded so much like a threat. — Rachel Hawkins

Co-existence or no existence. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation. — Anne Lamott

If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The Earth is alive and contains the knowledge you seek. It is your consciousness that determines what it reveals. How to access this knowledge? And where are the keys to open it and make it yours? The Earth speaks. Love her, honor and respect her and she will reveal her secrets. — Barbara Marciniak

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain De Botton

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head. — Nicholas Stoller

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D. — Mark Hart

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history. — J.C. Ryle

Glancing over, I was astonished to see Adrian watching me, a look of contentment on his face. His eyes seemed to study my every feature. Seeing me notice him, he immediately looked away. His usual smirky expression replaced the dreamy one. — Richelle Mead

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein