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Quotes About Scattering

Take the emptiness you hold in your arms And scatter it into the open spaces we breathe. Maybe the birds will feel how the air is thinner, And fly with more affection.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
For I did not yet understand fame, this public demolition of something still forming, onto whose construction site the crowd breaks in, scattering its stones.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
~ Wilkie Collins
Oh, you cherry petals, On this calm and balmy day, Why are you so restless, So keen to fly away? / ????? ????? ???? ????? ??????
~ Ki no Tomonori
evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms
~ James Weldon Johnson
in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
~ E.E. Cummings
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
~ C. V. Raman
And Time, a maniac scattering dust,And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And if families start scattering like stars you can pass laws based on food, rejection and the long drop justified to rock. The Saracens were not impressed. They yelled plunder loud enough for centuries to hear. And here men said to hell with it and left. Barring big rains now, accelerated erosion or a sudden real estate deal, this insufferable figure of Christ will stand over us all God knows how long. The town got smart and moved. You came back to see it. You are the one who failed.
~ Richard Hugo
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~ Sara Paretsky
the term diabalein (to throw apart). If God is a great gathering force, then sin is a scattering power.
~ Robert E. Barron
Mingle my dust with the burning brand, Scatter it free to the sky Fling it wide on the ocean's sand, From peaks where the vultures fly.
~ Robert E. Howard
To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
~ John Templeton
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
~ Holless Wilbur Allen
some hours later they were down at the railroad tracks standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead scattering drops of itself.
~ Anne Carson
Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
and scattering onto the floor.
~ Lisa Jackson
Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them ... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.
~ Russell T. Davies
Elam is one of the ancient names of Iran, just like Persia. The passage tells us that in the last days, God will scatter the people of Iran all over the earth. For many centuries, this seemed impossible because we Persians are such a proud and nationalistic people. But as incredible as it was, this prophecy actually began to come to pass in 1979.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
You're floating on a cloud, about to explode like a star, scattering your light over the universe. I'll feel the beauty of it, but you are far above and beyond me. You're what I worship.
~ Joey W. Hill
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
~ Anonymous
I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett