Gathering famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.
-- Adam Schiff -
I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.
-- Akshay Kumar -
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
-- Allison Mackie -
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
-- Andy Samberg -
If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.
-- Ann Coulter -
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest
-- Ari Fleischer -
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
-- Bo Sanchez -
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
-- Charles Bukowski -
It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
-- Chevy Chase -
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
-- Christopher Paolini -
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
-- Cynthia McKinney -
A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!
-- Daniel Quinn -
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
-- David Icke -
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.
-- David Quammen -
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
-- Deb Caletti -
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
-- Dick Cheney -
The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence.
-- Doug Graham -
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.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
-- Emile Zola -
Look Rushtail," Crowfeather was meowing frustratedly "WindClan is gathering farther down the hill. If you stay here, you'll get mixed up with ThunderClan" "So?" ThunderClan never did me any harm," rasped the elder "I'm not moving a pawstep from here, young fellow, until I've had something to eat" Crowfeather rolled his eyes " Great StarClan
-- Erin Hunter -
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
-- Fay Godwin -
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
-- Fay Weldon -
No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season
-- Felipe Alou -
The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.
-- Francis Chan -
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
-- Frank Herbert -
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
-- Frank Herbert -
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
-- George Gissing -
Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.
-- George Mackay Brown -
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.
-- George Orwell -
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
-- Gilles Peress -
People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.
-- Greta Van Susteren -
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.
-- H. G. Wells -
IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.
-- H. G. Wells -
I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.
-- Heber J. Grant -
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
-- Henry Paulson -
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
-- Ian MacKaye -
I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
-- Iris Chang -
We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
-- J. Edgar Hoover -
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.
-- Jamais Cascio -
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.
-- Jane Elliott -
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
-- Jerzy Kosinski -
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.
-- John Steinbeck -
The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering...
-- John Wimber -
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?
-- Jonathan Stroud -
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
-- Kathy Acker -
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
-- Kelly Ayotte -
It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?
-- Liz Tuccillo -
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
-- Macaulay Culkin -
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
-- Major Taylor -
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.
-- Marcello Malpighi -
My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.
-- Martha Stewart -
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
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.
-- Neil Gaiman -
...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
-- Patricia A. McKillip -
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.
-- Paul Eldridge -
Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.
-- Pippa Middleton -
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.
-- Robert E. Lee -
to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.
-- Santha Rama Rau -
It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.
-- Sarah Kay -
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
-- Scarlett Thomas -
The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.
-- Shulamith Firestone -
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.
-- Stephen Bayley -
In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.
-- Todd Akin -
Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
-- William Greider -
Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.
-- William J. Clinton -
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
-- William J. Clinton -
The gates of hell will not be able to withstand these people! They are people who will build a new prototype for today, and unlock a Kingdom mentality that hell cannot withstand. They will have centers for gatherings that will be known as Glory Fire Freedom Outposts.
-- Chuck Pierce -
The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
-- Flann O'Brien -
Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.
-- Joshua Marston -
Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
-- Lionel Barber -
Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.
-- Missy Mazzoli -
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.
-- Pamela Yates -
Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family
-- Steve Kimock -
He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.
-- Tito Colliander -
Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
-- Rod Stryker -
I don't feel like I'm taking pictures, I feel like I'm just gathering them in. They're all out there. I know where they'll be; I just have to get out of bed early enough to bring them home. Like lost kittens.
-- Simon Norfolk -
At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac -
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
-- Justin Trudeau -
Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters yet so why should I care about this battle) or with a pastoral scene where the protagonist is gathering herbs (I didn’t realize how common this is).
-- Kristin Nelson
