"if you stay still, earth buries you, ready…" — Annie Dillard
"if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not."
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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 Buries Quotes
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
— Robert Browning
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The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.
— Unknown Author
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to…
— Steven Furtick
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Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
— Charles Spurgeon
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
— Al-Ghazali
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God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
— Charles Wesley
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place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children.…
— Confucius
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with…
— Alexander Pope
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a…
— Edward Gibbon
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