Diffuse Quotes

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences. - John Adams

When you had a bookstore and that's where you bought books, that's where everybody came. But when you have so many choices -- Borders, the Internet -- it's diffused. - May Waldroup

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness. - John Strachan

When maintenance crews took down the air diffusers they say they only found a few specks of mold. What you see here is just your typical household dust. - Russ Oaks

When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word. - William S. Burroughs

When a woman asks you to guess her age, it's like deciding whether to cut the blue, red, or green wire to diffuse a bomb. - Unknown

Whatever be the topic of conversation, the spirit of piety should be diffused through it - as the salt in our food should properly season it all, whatever the article of food may be (Col. 4:6). - Albert Barnes

We've urged the government of Denmark to take necessary steps to stop recurrence of such heinous act. We also requested them to tender apology to diffuse the sense of insult and anger created following the incident. - Morshed Khan

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. - Edgar Allan Poe

We must think of ways to diffuse contradictions in society. - Luo Gan