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Quotes About Gathered

I cried and I cried and I cried. I wasn't crying because I was happy. I wasn't crying because I was sad. I wasn't crying because of my mother or my father or Paul. I was crying because I was full...I didn't feel like a big fate idiot anymore. And I didn't feel like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen. I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.
~ Cheryl Strayed
People came and went in waves, sometimes gathering in little circles around me to ask questions about the PCT when they noticed my pack. As I spoke, the doubts I had about myself on the trail fell away for whole minutes at a time and I forgot all about being a big fat idiot. Basking in the attention of the people who gathered around me, I didn't just feel like a backpacking expert. I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.
~ Cheryl Strayed
felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.
~ John F. Kennedy, 1962
Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.
~ Jane Austen
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
~ Winston Churchill
For sixty years tens of thousands of clandestine service officers have gathered only the barest threads of truly important intelligence—and that is the CIA's deepest secret.
~ Tim Weiner
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~ John F. Kennedy
Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security. We
~ William Boyd
Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
~ Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Come, ye thankful people, come,Raise the song of harvest-home;All is safely gathered in,Ere the winter storms begin.
~ Henry Alford
Zion is where the pure in heart are gathered; that gathering creates a Zion.
~ Henry B. Eyring
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
together, right before he'd
~ David Foster Wallace
The tender spring upon thy tempting lip Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted: Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.
~ William Shakespeare
I sit on the rug before the unlit grate and crack open the walnut. Out spills pale apricot muslin, frothing quantities of it. I shake the dress. It has an empire waist and wide, gathered sleeves that start just above the elbow so that my shoulders are bare. It hangs down to the floor in more gathered pleats.
~ Holly Black
Her Christianity was of that peculiarly Northern Ireland brand: whenever two or three are gathered together in my name some other poor bastard is going to get a good kicking. Salmon Rushdie and I, we understand fatwas.
~ Unknown
for his presence will become clear." They all sat down around a circular table in the center of the room. "I realize this meeting was called to discuss
~ Jeffrey Archer
Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
amassed at Wenden and, unless they
~ Unknown
The wonderful thing about Congress is that the really crazy scum are all gathered up in one single asylum where the people can keep an eye on them.
~ David Gustafson