They whom truth and wisdom lead can gather honey from a weed.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

During the war in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert the use of technology made news gathering safer.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries you don't just turn it off one day.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve journeying on its way to form?

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now and yet we are still a free society free enough that is to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

Travel and society polish one but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

The real man smiles in trouble gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

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.

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.

The Christian religion though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

This week the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Tonight we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers or the power of our military or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially people would question but once patriotism got stirred up the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word it overflows and its secret Spilt on the ground like water can never be gathered together.

From you we have learned what we at least value to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning to religious liberty and to individual and National freedom.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

During the Cold War we gathered information by listening to the Soviets taking pictures of the Soviets and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.