Gathering quotes
136 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
"The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be."
"It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate."
"When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them"
"The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act."
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"Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time."
"I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them."
"Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity."
"The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by."
"Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future."
"We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone."
"And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them."
"I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life."
"I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power."
"Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences."
"Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty."
"And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."
"It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation."
"I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read."
"The owls are gathering; find out why soon."
"But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."
"You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation."
"Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite me,” I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. “Of course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed."
"All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality."
"The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence."
