Top 100 Scatter'd Quotes
#1. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
Oliver Goldsmith
#2. Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to day.
William Shakespeare
#3. Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light
Omar Khayyam
#4. The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.
Joanna Baillie
#5. And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
Robert Burns
#6. Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone
#7. I want him to touch me again. I want to feel his hands, as soft as clouds. But I'm afraid if he touches me, all seven billion billion billion atoms that make up my body will blow apart and scatter across the universe.
Rick Yancey
#8. Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.
Wang Wei
#9. I lay in one of those protracted moments of rapture which scatter this journey like asteriks. A little more, I felt, and I would have gone up like a rocket.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
#10. In order to get organized, sometimes one must first disassemble and scatter around various parts of themselves.
Jen Selinsky
#11. I say, gentlemen, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. The autumn air is clear,
The autumn moon is bright.
Fallen leaves gather and scatter,
The jackdaw perches and starts anew.
We think of each other- when will we meet?
This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.
Li Bai
#13. Love is like a cherry blossoms ... they bloom at the first promise of the spring, they beautify even and the most grey landscape, they scatter at the first gust of the wind ...
But as they hold, when you look at them, you steal a little vew of paradise ...
Georgia Kakalopoulou
#14. They exit one by one, or sometimes two by two. You scatter pieces of them on the snow in the woods and then run away as fast as you can, and then you turn and run back towards them, once they're beyond your reach.
Chandler Burr
#15. Words are like feathers...can you see that? It is so easy for them to come out, and they scatter on the wind before you know it. But like feathers, our words are not easy to gather back up again. Once out of your mouth, you simply CANNOT take them all back.
Rebecca Musser
#16. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. ... the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come.
- Excerpt from the poem The Mercy
Philip Levine
#18. Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.
Emeril Lagasse
#19. Recycle the body through fire; scatter the remains back into the earth.
Denis Hearn
#20. Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of ... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
Claude Cahun
#21. Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#23. Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
#24. If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose.
Annie Dillard
#25. The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
Thomas Brooks
#26. There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds.
Charles Dickens
#27. You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams
Kahlil Gibran
#28. Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#29. My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.
Joan Rivers
#30. If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. We were all nomads once, and crossed the deserts and the seas on tracks that could not be detected, but were clear to those who knew the way. Since settling down and rooting like trees, but without the ability to make use of the wind to scatter our seed, we have found only infection and discontent.
Jeanette Winterson
#32. All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton
#33. I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you.
Hideo Kojima
#34. Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
Robert Bridges
#35. For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#36. Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.
Horace Mann
#37. It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.
David Spade
#38. The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. The machine has several virtues ... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.
Mark Twain
#40. I'll flay Tigerstar! I'll scatter his entrails from here to Twolegplace!
-Cloudtail
Erin Hunter
#41. Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,
Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,
Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,
Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power
So scatter and consume them in his rage,
That not a man should live to rue their fall.
Christopher Marlowe
#42. I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime ... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.
Silas House
#43. Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.
Thomas Guthrie
#44. The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.
Reginald Ray
#45. My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.
Georgia Salpa
#46. I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
Scott Bakula
#47. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Kahlil Gibran
#48. Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
Muhammad Ali
#49. Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.
John Durham Peters
#50. Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#51. For the time being
Words scatter
Are they fallen leaves?
Ruth Ozeki
#52. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
Samuel Johnson
#53. It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Helen Walton
#54. Hush little owl,
You're with Twi.
I got the moves to get you by.
Big bad crows.
St. Aggie's scamps
Ain't got nothin to show the champ.
I'll pop a spiral
With a twist,
Do a three-sixty
And scatter mist
Kathryn Lasky
#55. Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.
Lord Chesterfield
#56. When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.
Howell Raines
#57. Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#58. When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#59. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Harold Bloom
#60. Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...
as orchids
blooming in clouds.
Sanober Khan
#61. How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
Joanna Scott
#63. Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention
Sunday Adelaja
#64. My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.
Omar Khayyam
#65. It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
Evan Esar
#66. When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.
Daphne Du Maurier
#67. To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
Milarepa
#68. What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan
#69. We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.
Jeremy Bentham
#70. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Saint Ambrose
#72. I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.
John F. Kennedy
#73. It's strange how someone can walk into your life, shatter the windows, break down your doors, scatter your belongings, and then walk away without having the slightest inkling of the storm they'd brought.
Leylah Attar
#74. My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."
Mitch Hedberg
#75. Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe:
1. Write a simple narrative.
2. Make a long list.
3. Scatter the contents of your list throughout your narrative.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#76. The room seemed suddenly to clarify, as when a chance scatter of stars resolves into a constellation before the eye.
Eleanor Catton
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streamsThrough it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.
Johannes Gutenberg
#80. You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.
Rebecca Solnit
#81. Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.
Debbie Macomber
#82. Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?'
'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.
Melina Marchetta
#83. The small is easy to scatter.
Laozi
#84. Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever
Rebecca West
#85. Either get together or scatter.
Hlovate
#86. Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#87. Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.
Sappho
#88. The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
Carey Mulligan
#89. Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.
Choa Kok Sui
#90. Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Suzy Kassem
#91. wakened by pain
from a dream of pain
I wipe the sweat
and rose petals
scatter
Shiki Masaoka
#92. Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
Jacques Lacan
#93. The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light.
A.Z. Green
#94. Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
Jeremy Bentham
#95. atoms in the air scatter light from the sun and make the sky blue
Richard Feynman
#96. A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
Mary Oliver
#97. 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
#98. Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!
Soumya V.
#99. I knew it was nothing more than the vaguest sense of connection, the kite-string tug of an intriguing stranger. But I simply wasn't ready to feel these things again.
To gather up the dust of my heart and scatter it again on the winds of hope.
Alexis Hall
#100. Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
Saadi
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