#scatter

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

— Saint Augustine

#cheerful #corners #dark #descend #dwelling

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. ↗

— David Baldacci

#i #laser #last #pages #scattered

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#confident #creatures #either #example #fairly

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

— Clifford Geertz

#i #i think #known #scattered #still

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

#dew #gray #gray hairs #hairs #morning

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#calmed #centered #down #friends #get

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

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#been #collected #faithfulness #had #into