#scatter

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#i #i think #known #scattered #still

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. ↗

— Yoshida Kenko

#cares #heart #nothing #scattered #touch

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. ↗

— Aaron Hill

#counts #courage #dwells #flocks #herd

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#books #change #chords #core #few

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#cart #count #deathly #earth #eyes

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

#cremated #day #every #every day #him

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#body #culture #form #greenland #people

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

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

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand