Scattered Quotes
273 Scattered quotes by 245 unique authors
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I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and…
— Dith Pran
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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled
— Georg Buchner
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
— Raquel Cepeda
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I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of…
— Ezra Stiles
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One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that…
— Merrill C. Tenney
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I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with…
— Alexander Pope
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All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And…
— John Donne
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A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
— Epes Sargent
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Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to…
— Carl Jung
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When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.
— Guru Arjan
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If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are…
— Percival Lowell
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated.
— Hans Kmoch
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So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely…
— Paul Fussell
Who Wrote These Scattered Quotes
245 authors contributed a total of 273 Scattered Quotes, led by these top contributors: