« All Proper Quotes · Annie Dillard's Page
Proper Quotes by Annie Dillard
- I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from…
- The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
- Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.…
More Proper Quotes
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a… — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon
- It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. — William Bartram
- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we… — Joseph Addison
- No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher
- To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least… — Ezra Taft Benson
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and… — Alfred Adler
- The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. — Buffalo Bill