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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. -- Iris Chang
It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering. -- Chevy Chase
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. -- George W. Bush
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. -- Gustav Klimt
Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin. -- Mary Heaton Vorse
Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family -- Steve Kimock
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face. -- James Dashner
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. -- George Meredith
Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work. -- Bonnie Hamlin
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims. -- Maureen Dowd
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver. -- Lois Lowry
Magic: The Gathering, Gossamer Phantom. I asked him, 'Do you believe it's real?' He almost started crying and said, 'Yes, I do think it's real' and I said, 'Then that's all that matters.' -- Selena Gomez
'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.' -- Lois Lowry
On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree. -- William C. Bryant
People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others. -- John Taylor Gatto
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time. -- Anne Enright
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
Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones. -- Tove Jansson
Two weeks ago at the Greater Glory Gathering Virginia Beach, the Lord spoke to me about contending for a greater outpouring of his presence, signs, and wonders. During this prophetic experience I saw the Revival Healing Angel that had visited us in Lakeland, Florida. -- Todd Bentley
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
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms. -- Mike Wilson
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. -- William Greider
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. -- Dave Grohl
We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody. -- J. Edgar Hoover
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. -- Edwin Way Teale
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. -- Lord Byron
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
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. -- Alice Waters
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
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' -- Antoine Predock
Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service. -- Francis Chan
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
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer. -- Jim Walton
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
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
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. -- Jane Siberry
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
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
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them. -- Francis Chan
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 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. -- Mary Oliver
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
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. -- Hillary Clinton
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head. -- John Nelson Darby
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
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people. -- John O. Brennan
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. -- Walter Pater
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. -- Genevieve Gorder
The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country. -- Jim Gerlach
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper. -- Alan Kay
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name. -- Reza Aslan
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does. -- Mikko Hypponen
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. -- Joanna Southcott
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Moments. All gathering towards this one. -- Jenny Downham
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness? -- Jonathan Stroud
The owls are gathering; find out why soon. -- J. K. Rowling
My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person. -- Martha Stewart
In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected. -- Todd Akin
Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger. -- George W. Bush
Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows. -- George Mackay Brown
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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments. -- Henry Paulson
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The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone. -- Mira Grant
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information. -- Mercedes Lackey
Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story. -- Bill Maher
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. -- John Keats
No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season -- Felipe Alou
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. -- Gilles Peress
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. -- Charles Bukowski
Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences. -- Stuart Wilde
The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence. -- Doug Graham
Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church. -- R. C. Sproul
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism. -- Raymond Kelly
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. -- Nicolas Bentley
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would. -- E. W. Howe
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops. -- Andy Samberg
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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world. -- Albert Schweitzer
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. -- Robert Breault
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. -- Jane Garmey
The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering... -- John Wimber
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine. -- Ross Parsley
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself. -- Frank Herbert
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. -- Bill Vaughan
Set's storm is gathering," Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. "Shall we drive into is? -- Rick Riordan
I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world. -- Jimmy Page
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association) -- Ronald Reagan
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation. -- John F. Kerry
i want to interrupt a game of magic the gathering by busting through a wall on a motorcycle -- Megan Boyle
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. -- Gemma Files
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. -- Curt Sachs
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power. -- Tupac Shakur
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. -- Francis Bacon
When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions. -- Josh Kaufman
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. -- Peter Medawar
That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh. -- A. A. Milne
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
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. -- Lauren Oliver
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. -- Rumi
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it. -- Susan Orlean
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. -- Alice B. Toklas
[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering. -- Jennifer Egan
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
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
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. -- Rumi
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. -- Gautama Buddha
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. -- Robert Breault
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. -- Nancy Gibbs

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