Small Gathering Quotes

#1. But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles.
If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

Lorrie Moore

#2. If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

Amy Sedaris

#3. Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view

Gyan Nagpal

#4. Immediately, the water turned into wine. This was the first recorded miracle of Jesus' ministry on earth and I want to remind you that His miracles did not stop there. He will also do miracles in your life if you obey Him, and offer yourself as a clean pot He can fill.

Joyce Meyer

#5. It's just so beautiful," said Lyra, miming wiping a tear from the corner of her eye. "Our little Valerie's learning how to play nicely with the other children." "I will kill you all in your sleep," I said. Lyra was still laughing when the town car arrived.

Seanan McGuire

#6. I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

Chaim Potok

#7. I'd never seen so many Goths in one place. All dark clothes and brooding faces, like a gathering of small thunderclouds.

Simon R. Green

#8. But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79]

Herbert Mason

#9. It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

Hillary Clinton

#10. The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Fred M. Vinson

#11. To the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

Santha Rama Rau

#12. Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Gregory Bateson

#13. But something had shifted, some balance. I felt shrunken, so that when he put his arms around me, gathering me up, I was as small as a doll. I felt love going forward without me.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

Arianna Huffington

#15. In all things involving Nora Sutherlin, proceed with caution.

Tiffany Reisz

#16. We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others.

Vince Flynn

#17. What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.

Alain De Botton

#18. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping.

Jennifer Niven

#19. One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

Jack Nicholson

#20. The choice isn't mine." "You're right. It's mine. And I chose you." He

Skye Warren

#21. People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

Cormac McCarthy

#22. Man is a self-conscious Nothing,

Thomas Ligotti

#23. Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time.

Penny Reid

#24. I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

Pat Williams

#25. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

Roy Peter Clark

#26. The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.

Sharon Weil

#27. ...Life is nothing but a habit. Get to work.

Chrissie Wellington

#28. His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear now. Mostly, it was eerily quiet. Even the insects had ceased their music.

Derek Donais

#29. God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times

Sunday Adelaja

#30. But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap.

Yukio Mishima