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Quotes About Scattering

Bah! You're not worth the effort anyway!' And all at once she collapsed into a heap of spiders that scurried in all directions.
~ Steven Erikson
Or as if all the world's diamonds, that the diamond companies hide in order to keep prices up, had been abruptly dumped out and scattered recklessly all over.
~ Kenji Miyazawa
Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always...
~ Tite Kubo
Flowers scattering - The water we thirst for Far off, in the mist.
~ Kobayashi Issa
She was a star, burning so brightly it broke apart, pieces flying, light spraying.
~ Kristin Hannah
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.
~ Nicole Krauss
What is this,a summit meeting? Alan demanded as he strode down the hall. It's one thing to be the advance man, he continued as he cupped a hand around the back of his wife's neck, and another to be the sacrificial lamb.Dad's doing a lot of moaning and groaning about this family scattering off in all directions. With Caine getting the worst of it, Serena put in. Yeah. Alan grinned once, appealingly. Too bad he's late.
~ Nora Roberts
If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. His words, in His Bible. The Book of Genesis, chapter eleven So our God, our all -powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to heep His children apart. An almighty God this insecure? Who pits his children against each other, to keep them weak. This is the God we're supposed to worship?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way.
~ Charles Dickens
The necklace of Al-Rassan had been broken then, the pearls scattering. Now they could be lost.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
today, as she sat in her room following prayer, she reflected on how their numbers had grown in a way they could not have if they had all remained in Jerusalem. This time Abigail allowed herself to give silent voice to her deepest questions. Was this why, Lord? Was Stephen the seed that, when planted in the ground, bore fruit? Did you use his death to scatter us for your purposes?
~ Janette Oke
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.
~ Chief Seattle
Charged particles can scatter light by absorbing and reemitting it (a). Light can scatter off light only by the mediation of charged particles-the virtual particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum (b). This effect is very small; there is no experimental proof yet.
~ Henning Genz
Macabéa, Hail Mary, full of grace, serene promised land, land of forgiveness, the time must come, ora pro nobis, and I use myself as a form of knowledge. I know you to the bone through an incantation that comes from me to you. To scatter oneself wildly and yet behind everything pulses an inflexible geometry.
~ Clarice Lispector
'Podcasting House' is pivotal to the BBC's plan to scatter the seed of its various non-broadcast audio products beyond the narrow silos of the people who happen to listen to the programmes from which they arise.
~ David Hepworth
And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
atomic motions cause the waxing and waning of rivers, so too do they produce the transient body that you—whatever "you" means—currently inhabit before its substance flows back into the great global sea of atoms. Consider, then, the particles that are departing your body at this very moment. There is no need to wait for death to scatter you to the winds, waters, and soils of the world. It is already happening.
~ Unknown
Take from it what you most need and pass it on to someone else, for this is how stories — and selkie — move on; changing, unchanging, like the tides, taking with them what they can and scattering tales to the four winds, like seeds upon the ocean.
~ Joanne Harris
scattering Babel's inhabitants and putting an abrupt end to the first global community.
~ Unknown
We feel like we are drowning and dissolving in nonsense, as if scattering in inevitability, we cease to exist. And feel the meaning. We stop breathing, choking on inevitability.
~ Unknown
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
~ Genesis 10:18
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
~ Genesis 11:4
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
~ Genesis 11:8