Gathered Quotes
314 Gathered quotes by 268 unique authors
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At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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With the supplies gathered, he went over to the stainless-steel sink and pressed the foot pedal to get the water running. While he washed his…
— J R Ward
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I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things…
— Laini Taylor
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She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So…
— Will Durant
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Rehv swooped down with his long arms and gathered her up against him, tucking her with vital care to his chest. Ducking his head to…
— J R Ward
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I…
— Nizar Qabbani
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Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
— Bryan Davis
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I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance,…
— Daniel Handler
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He was staring straight ahead, still breathing hard. “I have something I want to give you.” “I gathered that.” At that he jerked his gaze…
— Cassandra Clare
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Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
— Nicole Krauss
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In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies…
— Chauncey Wright
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People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power, more things, more…
— Rajneesh
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One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them;…
— George MacDonald
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Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other…
— Charles Goodyear
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I have gathered a posy of other menÂ’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
— Michel de Montaigne
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This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations…
— Grace Paley
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The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it…
— Henry B. Eyring
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two…
— Jack Ma
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
— William R. Alger
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The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world…
— Harry Crosby
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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
— Bob Graham
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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can…
— Joshua Reynolds
Who Wrote These Gathered Quotes
268 authors contributed a total of 314 Gathered Quotes, led by these top contributors: