Scattered Quotes

273 quotes by 250 authors

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do… — Joseph Addison
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. — Joseph Addison
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being… — Albert Camus
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. — James Allen
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or… — Sogyal Rinpoche
One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have… — Albert Einstein
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still… — Black Elk
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its… — William Wells Brown
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these… — John Vianney
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is… — Mark Twain
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. — Yoshida Kenko
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to… — Charles Darwin
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many… — Khalil Gibran
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning — George Carlin
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but… — John Stuart Mill
It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so… — Marcus Garvey
Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering… — Johnny Basham

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