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Lives Quotes by Annie Dillard
- The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
- I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what…
- There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the…
- The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to…
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we…
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius