Best Spread Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

People Feels Causes Effort Steps Too Much Down And Lays Casts Deeds Spread Hopeless Our Thoughts Bricks Ponds Ripple Pebbles One Step At A Time Too Much Work Small Efforts

Author:Dorothy Day

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”

Stories Fighting Winning Secret Spread Shed

Author:China Mieville

“Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”

People Persons Joy Energy Pleasure Rooms Air Strange Spread Excitement Dry Vitality Drains Sustenance Dames

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.”

Needs Body Grows Greater Effects Arms Kissing Opposites Legs Spread Sensations Chests Satisfying Arms And Legs

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it; and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!”

Children Enough Earth Humanity Stars Bears Ancient Spread Someday Descendants

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.”

Imagination Privilege Spread Thick Layers Sensitivity Adversaries Tissues

Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays

Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays

“A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain”

Ifs Littles Light Order Fall Sound Rain Window Universal Musical Spread Rhythm Loud Sand Showers Liquid Missiles Overhead Drumming Plentiful

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Or

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or

“Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.”

Thinking Mean Stuff Can Do Brain Pride Spread Brown Flaws Sandwiches Annabeth Annabeth Chase Hubris Percy Jackson And The Olympians Sirens Seaweed Fatal Flaws Hummus

Author:Rick Riordan

“Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”

Persons Two Differences Embrace Spread Just One

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.”

Body Felt Middle Dying Flow Breaths Filled Spread Smell Breathe Cells Demon Scent Coats Veins Lungs Hallucinations Amber Tainted Incense Cinnamon Musk

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.”

Ifs Men Giving Feels Pain Dies Hurt Grief Focus Terrible Spread Grieving Terrible Things

Book:Hit List

Source: Hit List

“There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.”

Sadness Letters Spread Tales Triumph Phases Representing

Book:Rosie Dunne

Source: Rosie Dunne

“A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.”

Long Fall Girl Sides Black Sleep Hair Arms Red Lays Spread Shoulders Features Chests Delicate Teenage Alex Doorways Sofas Capes Slender Rise And Fall Cushions Teenage Girl Afghan Red And Black

Author:L.A. Weatherly

“Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thought something awful was happening.” She frowned. “Something awful was happening. It could have got stuck in my hair.”

Father Hair Happenings Spread Stuck Awful Relief

Book:Skulduggery Pleasant:

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:

“After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”

World Long Two Shows Eye Spirit Three Stars White Brain Clear Minutes Eternity Wings Spread Cups Tea Gates Soar Lanes Eloquent Cups Of Tea Clear Eyes

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.”

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus.”

Matter Passion Jesus Names Speak Christ Forever Eternal And Love No Matter What Spread Treasure Gods Will Kingdoms Peaceful Satisfying Speak The Truth Truth And Love

Book:Think

Source: Think

“That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen”

Thinking Way Giving Looks Self Spread Determined Get Back Amen

Author:George Harrison

“[Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.”

Knows Stills Light Eye Cutting Doors Feet Hair Baby Husband Clean Sticks Bottom Spread Stuck Chickens Candle Tag Gum Hinges Diapers Sticky Frying Price Tag

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.”

Hair Mouths Ears Rounds Library Spread Bows Tied Cheeks Betrayed Ribbons Her Smile Perky

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace

“What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.”

Ifs Way Hands Wanted Fit Fingers Caught Obvious Spread Bones Throat Thumbs Collars Bolts

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.”

Ifs Said Beautiful Remember Rooms Fire Red Dresses Spread Laughed

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“Pac-Man? Or is it Donkey Kong?” In truth, it looked a little more violent and military. A slow grin spread over his face. “Baseball. Think maybe you could stand behind me and give me a few pointers?”

Thinking Men Giving Littles Faces Behinds Military Baseball Give Me Spread Violent Donkey Pacs Pointers Donkey Kong

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.”

Stills Students Higher Pages Spread Arrangements Funding Website Higher Education Misinformation Education Funding

Author:Anne Campbell

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.”

Source: Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her. His lush lips inched into a surprised but pleased smile. "You were naked," she told him. His grin spread; his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "And tied up..." He arched his eye brows in smug expectation. "I did not know the idea of bondage would please you." "Oh, I love the idea of typing you up." She paused dramatically. "Just like in my dream, you'll be secured to an ant-hill and the little things will eat you alive.”

Knows Littles Ideas Dream Hands Eye Alive Please Mouths Expectations Lips Satisfaction Spread Naked Hills His Eyes Little Things Tied Bondage Ants Brows Secured Typing Tied Up Devouring Lush

Book:The Nymph King

Source: The Nymph King

“Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. It starts as a little thing, small enough to burrow into your pores, take up excruciating residence in the dark recesses of your brain. Its name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.”

Source: Perfect

“Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.”

Needs Hands Wish Poor Too Much Wise Spread Riches Folly Honey Bees Weary Joyous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.”

Men World Heart Whole Hate Hatred Hot Spread Whole World Bread East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.”

Light Stars Dark Darkness Clear Pure Shining Spread Gentle Touched Patches Dark Things Wrinkle In Time

Book:A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

Mean I Can Different Home Body House My Own Sky Lovers Empty Importance Spread Absence Accurate Empty Houses Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.”

Way Lying Effects Internet Spread Distortion Inexpensive

Author:Tony Campolo

“It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.”

Years Long Seems Running Beautiful Sides Interesting Our Lives One Day Red Patterns Spread Gods Will Make Sense Thread Reverse Looking Back Very Interesting Tapestry Weaving Red Thread

Author:Maria von Trapp

“All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.”

Stories Left Space Rooms Behinds Quiet Spread Vain Left Behind

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.”

Knows World Years Age Stars Cities Son Ocean Blue Lays Shining Spread Kingdoms Drank Atlantis Conan

Book:Conan the Barbarian

Source: Conan the Barbarian

“But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.”

People Knows Men Feels Looks Littles Animal Sky Holy Fellows Clouds Spread Combination Beast Fellow Man Unstable Holy Man

Author:H. G. Wells

“When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.”

“I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.”

Heart May Wisdom Earth Grows Understanding Justice Sin Steps Path Fire Movement Transformation Spread Guides Purification Love Grows Fire Of Love

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Said Eye Faces Voice Perfect Cases Ocean Appearance Spread Tiny Attractive Tone His Eyes Pairs Pauses Trust Me Ripple Catch Me

Author:Marie Lu

“He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.”

Ifs Years Mean Hands Dies Waiting Cities Fate Tree Pages Hundred Spread Genes Ashes Ruined Veins Oxygen Wire Laboratory Madmen Riddle Hinges Craters Dead Trees

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.”

Want Stills Spread Shirts Bulls Kitten Thighs Rotting

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.”

Ifs Would Be Half Nice Trouble Spread Friendliness Mordor

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“And like I said, I didn't know him very well, but my ears perked up whenever I heard his name. I guess I wanted to hear something - anything - juicy. Not because I wanted to spread gossip. I just couldn't believe someone could be that good. If he was actually that good... wonderful. Great! But it became a personal game of mine. How long could I go on hearing nothing but good things about Clay Jensen? Normally, when a person has a stellar image, another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. But not with Clay.”

Ifs Knows Believe Wells Persons Long Said Wanted Games Names Waiting Wonderful Heard Tears Mines Goes On Ears Wings Good Things Spread Hearing Flaws Gossip Clay Juicy Stellar Fatal Flaws

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”

Spiritual Thousand Spread Flames Candle

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.”

Ideas Self Matter Information Mass Smart Jokes Spread Tunes Legends Host Irrational Urban Marxism Hysteria Susceptible Humming Viral Crackpots Urban Legends Mass Hysteria

Author:Neal Stephenson

“In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.”

Two Use Girl Fighting Given Ability Darkness Generations Thousand Skills Spread Chosen My Generation Slayer Single Girl

Author:Joss Whedon

“And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me...everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.”

Spirit Song Voice Darkness Air Silent Spread Height Everlasting Great Spirit Humming Shrouds

Book:Hunger

Source: Hunger

“My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus?”

Stuff Brain Spread Brown Flaws Sandwiches Hubris Seaweed Fatal Flaws Hummus

Author:Rick Riordan

“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.”

Knows Men Hands Dies Memories Generations Strange One Day Fame Glory Gains Spread Mythology Broads Holocaust Fades Strange Things Incline Odysseus

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence”

Source: Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010

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