Convening Quotes & Sayings

Your house is lovely," I say, even though it isn't. It's old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside it are lovely.
"It's empty now. All my things sold up. Can't take it with you, you know."
"You mean when you die?" I whisper.
He glares at me. "No. I mean to the nursing home. — Jenny Han

The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge, — Ian Rankin

Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits! — Roger Ebert

As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know? — Annie Lennox

It is easy to see the flaws of others, hard to see one's own. One exposes flaws of others, yet hides one's own flaws. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God. — C.S. Lewis

Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another — Julian Barnes

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance. — Rumi

Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime. — Sharon Salzberg

To try to be better is to be better. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future. — Jacob Needleman

Except for the risk, the marijuana situation in California is a lot like the booze situation in the 1920's. Pot is everywhere, thousands of people smoke it as often as they take aspirins. But the fact of illegality has bred a cultishness, a pot underground whose partisans are forced to skulk around like spies, convening in dark rooms to pass their criminal pleasure from hand to nervous hand. Many get high from the sheer risk. — Hunter S. Thompson

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge. — Joyce Banda

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk. — Marcus Buckingham

I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman. — Adam Hughes

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran. — Rebecca MacKinnon