Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.
The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.
And never since harvests were ripened, Or laborers born, Have men gathered figs of the thistle, Or grapes of the thorn!
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game. ' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.
We've all gathered together, and whatever goes down is what goes down.
I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
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 the time of payment draws near. " 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.
Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.