Annie Dillard Famous Quotes
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.
"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
Annie Dillard Quotations
"Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day."
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."
Rudyard Kipling
"But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
William Shakespeare
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride."
Clive Staples Lewis
"He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any."
Mark Twain
"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."
Jewish Proverb
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Some people just don't seem to realize, when they're moaning about not getting prayers answered, that no is the answer."
Nelia Gardner White