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Trying Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and…
- I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae…
- 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…
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
- 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 cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
- 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…
- What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash