Browsing Topic Best Gathering Together Quotes

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.

I don’t want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don’t want to create the church of the non-believers where I’m the preacher and we’re all gathering together and reciting things.

The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird’s-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as résumé. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to.

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one’s experience.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

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.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

I’m a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.