Collected Quotes

229 quotes by 217 authors

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI… — Michele Bachmann
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down… — Saul Bellow
Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. — Jim Bishop
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as… — Anthony Bourdain
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of… — Thomas Jefferson
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible… — Henry David Thoreau
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and… — A. E. Housman
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make… — Saadi
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. — Charles Darwin
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude. — Thomas Gray
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected… — Theodor Boveri
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Edmund Pellegrino
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of… — Michael Dorris
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind. — Hortense Calisher
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world… — Clive Stafford Smith
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected… — William Blake
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests… — Noah Webster

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