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  • Attending church is one thing, belonging is another. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe? -- Laozi
  • Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life. -- John Oliver
  • Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good. -- Katie Cassidy
  • Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. -- Stephen Covey
  • Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential. -- Nina Easton
  • From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof. -- John Jay Hooker
  • The real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can. -- Marcus Luttrell
  • I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. -- John Burroughs
  • The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. -- Michael Korda
  • I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. -- Kenny Marchant
  • Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. -- Clint Eastwood
  • By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. -- Michael N. Castle
  • It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. -- Henry Lawson
  • When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone. -- Richard Jefferies
  • I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. -- Erma Bombeck
  • You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again. -- Matt Taibbi
  • Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. -- Pete Earley
  • The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. -- Anna Quindlen
  • If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything. -- Alice Oswald
  • In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says 'I'm the best person for this job' quite like asking an employer to pay to interview you. -- Stella Young
  • Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them. -- Tippi Hedren
  • Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. -- Jeb Bush
  • If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you. -- Natalie Goldberg
  • Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write. -- Christopher Paolini
  • Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.' -- Joel Osteen
  • I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. -- Rick Perry
  • At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home run record across the country. -- Jane Leavy
  • Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending. -- Peter Guber
  • We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works. -- Max Ernst
  • I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to. -- Laozi
  • Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs. -- Terry Eagleton
  • Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks. -- Ally Carter
  • My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. -- John McCarthy
  • Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long. -- Robert A. Burton
  • Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer. -- Alan Hirsch
  • The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. -- Frederic Ozanam
  • I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral -- John Burroughs
  • Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding. -- Jerry Coleman
  • The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected. -- Bob McDonnell
  • A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' -- Michael Stipe
  • Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. -- Robert Burton
  • If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. -- Dorothy Parker
  • That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path. -- Emma Campion
  • Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. -- Emily Oster
  • You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there. -- Knute Rockne
  • Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
  • Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc. -- LaVell Edwards
  • Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train. -- Charles Wesley
  • The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties... -- Meher Baba
  • And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. -- Nora Roberts
  • Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. -- Roger Ebert
  • As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness. -- Emanuel Celler
  • The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, -- Nelson Mandela
  • Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. -- Arthur Smith
  • In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers. -- Karen Duffy
  • Many believe it is possible to be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree. -- Rick Warren
  • Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements. -- Vicki Covington
  • If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled -- Will Rogers
  • It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo -- William Shakespeare
  • Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally? -- Dana Gould
  • Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -- William James
  • how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman -- Daphne du Maurier
  • how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... -- Daphne du Maurier
  • Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. -- June Allyson
  • Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert -- June Allyson
  • Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn't attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don't see. -- Emmet Gowin
  • One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. -- Michel De Certeau
  • Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. -- Twyla Tharp
  • In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer. -- Frederick Lenz
  • You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it. -- Izaak Walton
  • As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. -- Marianne Moore
  • Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison. -- Angela Davis
  • For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck. -- Ann Hood
  • Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies. -- William James
  • Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment. -- Al Sharpton
  • You can't be attending to your dream only when you perfectly feel like doing so. Its pursuit has to become a big part of your daily life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us. -- J. L. Austin
  • I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared. -- Jesse Browner
  • The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important. -- Eric Maisel
  • First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians. -- Ellen Muth
  • I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous. -- David Sedaris
  • When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working. -- Jay Leno
  • Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty. -- William Shenstone
  • While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband. -- Liya Kebede
  • Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. -- Mary Jo Weaver
  • Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate. -- Saffron Burrows
  • It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California. -- Lamar Alexander
  • My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award. -- Sharon Lawrence
  • Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to. -- Ben Casnocha
  • ...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again. -- Anne Fadiman
  • The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion. -- Adoniram Judson
  • I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules. -- James D. Watson
  • Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history. -- A. N. Wilson
  • It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. -- Gavin Bryars
  • He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music." -- Gavin Bryars
  • Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time. -- Ann Coulter
  • Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  • The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own. -- George Washington
  • Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending. -- Thom Yorke
  • In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married. -- Juan Pablo Galavis
  • In Venezuela, which doesnt have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married. -- Juan Pablo Galavis
  • Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so -- Lord Chesterfield
  • A convention always involves a level of security. It is always our intent to ensure everyone attending the convention is safe. When it comes to protestors, we welcome people who have something to say. -- Leah D. Daughtry
  • My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise. -- Simon McBurney
  • Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people"¦.Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience. -- Howard W. Hunter
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