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Them Quotes by Annie Dillard
- I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from…
- Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
- I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface…
- Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive…
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
- Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
- Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
- Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was…
- These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
- The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do…
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
- When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was…
- The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
- On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster