Best Dispersed Quotes

47 Dispersed quotes by 45 unique authors

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to… — Ray Bradbury
There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of… — James Surowiecki
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of… — Steven Hall
and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease… — Sylvia Plath
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about… — Pico Iyer
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for… — May Sarton
Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop… — Nhat Hanh
Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world. — Paulo Coelho
To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to… — Alain de Botton
Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we… — Nhat Hanh
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together. — Confucius
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. — Iqbal Quadir
Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that… — J. J. Abrams
Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing… — Thomas Frank
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself.… — James Allen
Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles,… — Bible
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed — African Proverb
Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire Mgo up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame,… — William Carlos Williams

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