"Are you living just a little and calling…" — Annie Dillard
"Are you living just a little and calling that life?"
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
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More Calling Quotes
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
— Henry Adams
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going…
— Sara Blakely
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding…
— Anthony Bourdain
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson…
— Jackson Browne
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
— Warren Buffett
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
— Geezer Butler
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