"We are here to witness the creation and…" — Annie Dillard
"We are here to witness the creation and to abet it."
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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 Abet Quotes
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
— Colin Powell
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
— Annie Dillard
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In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no…
— Levi Eshkol
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature…
— Annie Dillard
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Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic…
— Bill Keller
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To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure,…
— Gordon Parks
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If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a…
— Carl Sagan
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
— Tom Peters
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I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism…
— Cee Lo Green
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No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and…
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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