Scattered Quotes

273 Scattered quotes by 245 unique authors

For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. — George Carlin
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant… — Thomas S. Monson
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety… — Pearl S. Buck
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens… — Clive Barker
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be… — Lois McMaster Bujold
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.… — Doris Lessing
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even… — Khalil Gibran
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... — Stephen King
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces,… — Sue Monk Kidd
We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't… — Paulo Coelho
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object… — Simone de Beauvoir
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until… — Louise Erdrich
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go. — Daniel Woodrell

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