There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
Gathering eggs is commonsense; waiting for them to hatch is wisdom. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A Company of a good friend is worth thousand people around you or else you are Gathering a Crowd - irrfan ishaq
Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves. - Vinko Vrbanic
All these pricks gathering around her body, trying to reach and pierce her rose. - Anthony Liccione
Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together. - Todd Stocker
Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work. - Bonnie Hamlin
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! - John Muir
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? - Christopher Paolini
Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances. - Dada Bhagwan
War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. - Stanisław Lem
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm - Robert Burns
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . . - George Gissing
And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other. - Richard Mitchell
I can be patient, but I am not God! Don't take me for granted, or you will spend your life gathering my scattered self! - Shilpa Sandesh
The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved. - Richard Rohr
Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.
My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds. - Kirby Larson
Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge. - Roopleen
Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these things. - Thorton Wilder
What I like most about the process of literary creation is gathering mundane facts and concepts, then clothing them with the ornate jewels and fine garments of imagination and fantasy, weaving a tale on the glittering edge of possibility. - Gregory Hamilton
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure. - Parker J. Palmer
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. - Edwin Teale