Surrounding Quotes

317 Surrounding quotes by 276 unique authors

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness. — Jada Pinkett Smith
We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. — Patti Stanger
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. — Christy Turlington
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness… — Virginia Woolf
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. — Colm Toibin
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort… — Victor Hugo
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.… — Kevin Brockmeier
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its… — Wendell Berry
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by… — Edith Wharton
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to… — Jane Austen
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding… — Daniel Handler
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general… — Ian Mcewan
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can… — Ansel Adams
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. — Albert Einstein
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding… — Bob Dylan

Who Wrote These Surrounding Quotes

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