We do know that she is a well-respected person and a veteran. This is not someone who was on their first day of the job. You can't help but wonder if this person made a mistake, an honest and true mistake.


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ROSEMARY DILLARD
I'm not satisfied. I was definitely expecting more information to come out at the trial. It is still...
ROSEMARY DILLARD
I am furious. My government (has) let me down again. (Martin) has made this entire case a laughingst...
ROSEMARY DILLARD
I felt like my heart had been ripped out. I felt like my husband had been killed again. I felt like ...
ROSEMARY DILLARD
I can blame only one person. The government. This Carla Martin. What did we teach her in school? She...
ROSEMARY DILLARD
I feel very strongly that today was a hard day, but it was a good day.
ROSEMARY DILLARD
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
ANNIE DILLARD
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
ANNIE DILLARD
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers...
ANNIE DILLARD
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and...
ANNIE DILLARD
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARD
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether...
ANNIE DILLARD
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘...
ANNIE DILLARD
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a w...
ANNIE DILLARD
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible...
ANNIE DILLARD
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive fai...
ANNIE DILLARD
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a ...
ANNIE DILLARD
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...
ANNIE DILLARD
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, ...
ANNIE DILLARD
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten a...
ANNIE DILLARD
You can't test courage cautiously.
ANNIE DILLARD
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
ANNIE DILLARD
dead and dying.
ANNIE DILLARD
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not fa...
ANNIE DILLARD
"The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it ...
ANNIE DILLARD
One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "ea...
ANNIE DILLARD
Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I wai...
ANNIE DILLARD
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
ANNIE DILLARD
I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door
ANNIE DILLARD
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically in...
ANNIE DILLARD
I think the prosecutors had to do that. We had to relive it again to make a point about what this is...
ROSEMARY DILLARD
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane ...
ANNIE DILLARD
We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until ...
ANNIE DILLARD
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
ANNIE DILLARD
I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it lo...
ANNIE DILLARD
The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if ...
ANNIE DILLARD
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
ANNIE DILLARD
Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the anc...
ANNIE DILLARD
It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...
ANNIE DILLARD
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...
ANNIE DILLARD
Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...
ANNIE DILLARD
I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...
ANNIE DILLARD