Top 159 Scatter Quotes & Sayings

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

The small is easy to scatter.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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.

God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

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.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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.

'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.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

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.

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

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.

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

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.

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.

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

Scatter seeds of kindness.

I'm naturally all over the place and scatter-brained.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

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.

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

I think 'renaissance woman' is a really fancy way of saying that I'm scatter-brained and non-commital.

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.

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.