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Tag Name "Strewn" (49)

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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
James Russell Lowell
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
John Ruskin
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And love was creation's source,creation's ruler but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.
Knut Hamsun
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep Where the spent lights quiver and gleam Where the salt weed sways in the stream.
Matthew Arnold
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
Alan Greenspan
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
Alexander Graham Bell
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This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.
Richard Blumenthal
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The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.
Alfred Marshall
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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.
Robert E. Howard
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She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
Anais Nin
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
Rowan Atkinson
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But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
Ann Aguirre
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I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.
Si Robertson
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I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.
Arthur Koestler
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At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.
Thomas H. Cook
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They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian goes on for ever.
Edith Durham
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
Walter Bagehot
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No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.
Florence Fabricant
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You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
Walter Benjamin
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A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.
George Gilder
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.
Yoshida Kenko
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The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.
Haridas Chaudhuri
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