Strewn Quotes
71 quotes by 65 authors
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame de Stael
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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
— G. Stanley Hall
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and…
— Walter Bagehot
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As…
— Kevin Martin
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This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to…
— Richard Blumenthal
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Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of…
— Guy Murchie
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
— Le Corbusier
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People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm,…
— Don DeLillo
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I love being outdoors and think a tan is very sexy. I'll lie out on white towels strewn with pillows. I don't like to hide…
— Pamela Anderson
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
— Alexander Graham Bell
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot…
— George Gilder
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
— George Bernard Shaw
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History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.
— Steven Novella
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At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.
— Thomas H. Cook
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The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.
— Haridas Chaudhuri
Who Wrote These Strewn Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 71 Strewn Quotes, led by these top contributors: