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Quotes About Attending

any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Hans Castorp barely attended. His mouth was open, for he could not have breathed through his nose without sniffing; he felt with dull discomfort that his heart was hammering out of time with the music; and with this combined sense of discord and disorder he was about to doze off
~ Thomas Mann
Today's unchurched are more likely to say they are simply not sure, reflecting their disinterest in churches generally, or are more likely to say they would prefer attending some activity other than the Sunday service.
~ George Barna
I was attending a formal dinner." He grimaced. "They make us wear armor to these things so we don't stab ourselves out of sheer boredom.
~ Ilona Andrews
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
~ D. H. Lawrence
We Cyngael live where the farthest light of Jad falls. The last light of the sun. It needs attending to, my lord, lest it fail.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Give order to the future by attending to it with your thoughts. -Darth Plageuis
~ James Luceno
She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only received 'the best education in the world,' know nothing worth attending to.
~ Jane Austen
He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.
~ Lev Grossman
Have you been attending church in London, Sis?" "I don't really have the time, Joff." "We make time, Sis." I sighed. He was right.
~ Jasper Fforde
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
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
I foresee myself being overwhelmed at University, yet I'm attending regardless.
~ Unknown
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
for as gospel gifts are useless without attending unto gospel institutions, so gospel institutions are found to be fruitless and unsatisfactory without the attaining and exercising of gospel gifts.
~ John Owen
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
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
~ Mark Twain
Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big." — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
~ Pete Seeger