If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. Charles Krauthammer
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
When the deal is done, discuss it no more; it is difficult to collect dispersed water. Chinese Proverb
A boy isn't sent to collect the honey. Kenyan Proverb
When the leopard has a broken paw, the antellope comes to collect an old debt. Ibo Proverb