Thinly Scattered Quotes & Sayings

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. — Karin Slaughter

[P]erhaps the burrows in which our lives were spent really were dark and dirty, and perhaps we ourselves were well suited to these burrows, but in the blue sky above our heads, up among the thinly scattered stars, there were special, artificial points of gleaming light, creeping unhurriedly through the constellations, points created here out of steel, semiconductors, and electricity, and now flying through space. And every one of us, even the blue-faced alcoholic we had passed on the way here, huddling like a toad in a snowdrift, even Mitiok's brother, and of course Mitiok and I - we all had our own little embassy up there in the cold pure blueness. — Victor Pelevin

My greatest fear in life isn't dying. It's being the source of someone else's suffering. — V.E Schwab

As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and the bonds by which society is held together, and without which it cannot exist; and are nearly the same in all religions, and in all societies. The Testament teaches nothing new upon this subject, and where it attempts to exceed, it becomes mean and ridiculous. When it is said, as in the Testament, 'If a man smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also,' it is assassinating the dignity of forbearance, and sinking man into a spaniel. — Thomas Paine

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all the myriad things. — Ruth Ozeki

We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it's falling apart because of single moms. — Rick Santorum

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em. — Rosalind Russell

Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great."
"I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra."
"My dream date. — Lisa Kleypas

We might do better if we saw art as a technique, not a mystique. — A.S. Byatt