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Us Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- 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…
- 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 are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
- It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing…
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
- So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
- There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has…
- Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and…
- I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
- These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
- I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.…
- 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 Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong