#gather

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#came #gathered #i #instruments #musical

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ↗

— William R. Alger

#fields #gathered #gems #mental #mind

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#because #cannot #diligently #gather #grain

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it. ↗

— Artur Davis

#chances #estimated #fix #gather #got

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#communal #gathering #having #i #i do

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. ↗

— Herman Melville

#dead #doubts #even #faith #feeds

The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#does #effect #ever #gather #groups

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #beauty #been #flies #fools