Quotes with gathering

  • 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.
  • A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Fred A. Allen A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Fred A. Allen A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Lord George Byron For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Ruskin If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Listen, if you're from Arizona I'm not making fun of your home. I'm making fun of you for gathering there and building a community in an oven. Smooth move.
    Poetry Arizona Summers
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Adam Schiff Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • H.G. Wells 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
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Ari Fleischer 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
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Bill McCartney This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Bill Keller Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bob Graham Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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