Diffuse Quotes

• It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Country
  • Surface
  • Nerves

• Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Breath
  • Spoiled
  • Flora

• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Military
  • Forces
  • Diffuse

• The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

  

  Anabel Jensen
  • Listen
  • Argument
  • Diffuse

• Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

  

  Mother Maribel
  • Prayer
  • Little
  • Heat