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Diffuse Quotes

Quotes on diffusing heat, light, and influence outward.

These quotes use "diffuse" mostly in a figurative sense, comparing prayer to a furnace that must first generate heat before it can diffuse any outward.

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Quotes by Tori Kelly

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather...

Quotes by Sidney Lanier

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

Quotes by Romany Malco

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and...

Quotes by Raekwon

Able Quotes

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.

Quotes by Mother Maribel

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes...

Quotes by Martin Rees

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto...

Quotes by Leo Ornstein

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to...

Quotes by K. Eric Drexler

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.

Quotes by John Strachan

Adapt Quotes

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter,...

Quotes by James Wolcott

I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other...

Quotes by Jack Falahee

Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Quotes by Iggy Pop

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Quotes by Elliott Carter

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it...

Quotes by Doug Stanhope

Good Quotes

As I understand from the real military personnel who I've had the opportunity to speak to over the last few years, humor is very much used to diffuse stress. I think that if they were to keep it as serious...

Quotes by Daniela Ruah

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

Quotes by Colin Baker

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

Quotes by Chrissy Teigen

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to...

Quotes by Cesare Beccaria

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional...

Quotes by Bernardo Bertolucci

Great Quotes

Trade and investment are good for innovation - open economies allow new ideas and technologies to diffuse more quickly from wherever they are created.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the focus of these diffuse quotes?
The quotes mostly use 'diffuse' figuratively, describing prayer as generating heat that must diffuse outward, and applying the same idea to medicine, mission work, and even hair care products.
Why do people search for quotes about diffusing something?
People often look for diffuse quotes when writing about spreading influence, ideas, or effects outward from a single source, since the word naturally implies gradual, wide-reaching movement.
Is there a quote comparing prayer to heat that must diffuse?
Yes, one quote argues that frantic effort is like cold iron, and that it must first be heated in the furnace of prayer before that heat can diffuse further.
Does any quote mention diffusion in a medical context?
Yes, one quote contrasts precise surgical tools with crude drug molecules, describing the latter as simply released into the body where they spread out and act somewhat blindly.
Is there a quote about diffusing light in a religious sense?
Yes, one quote describes a Bishop appointed roughly thirty-two years earlier to diffuse the light of the Gospel through an extensive portion of a kingdom's territory.

Others apply the word to medicine and mission work, from drug molecules diffusing through the body to spreading a Gospel message, a theme connected to Good and Great.