“ Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ”
- Le Corbusier- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women. ”
- Mary Field Belenky- Copy
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“ The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
- 3.9K
“ In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ”
- William R. Alger- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,A motley fool. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1K
“ Before, I wouldn't have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara. ”
- Boris Becker- Copy
- 90
“ I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met. ”
- Kelly Osbourne- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. ”
- Edward O. Wilson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. ”
- Theodore Roethke- Copy
- 2.1K
“ And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit — such are the just grounds for the regrets I have … ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations. ”
- Farnsworth Crowder- Copy
- 148
“ My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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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 come from nothing. ”
- Sir Joshua Reynolds- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons; but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
- 155
“ Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an esplanade where stretcher cases lay side by side, end to end, waiting for a priest to come with a monstrance that gathered sun to its gold and blazed in the sign of the cross above the stretchers. ”
- Kathryn Hulme- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. ”
- Edgar Lee Masters- Copy
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“ There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over… Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? ”
- Sojourner Truth- Copy
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“ A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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