Gathering Quotes

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

I can’t even take a stroll through a park. As soon as women see my face they start gathering up their children and running for home.

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.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

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.

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.

To protect us from terrorism, we must have the best, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world.

The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence.

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

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.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

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.

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

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.

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way."

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

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.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.