Surrounding Quotes
317 Surrounding quotes by 276 unique authors
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Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two…
— Peter Kreeft
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The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No,…
— Julie Garwood
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation…
— Albert Camus
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The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by…
— Oswald Chambers
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Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of…
— Yukio Mishima
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Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.…
— Sharon M. Draper
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Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally,…
— Rajneesh
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little…
— Jane Austen
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In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
— Milan Kundera
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The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to…
— Simone Elkeles
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A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.
— David Levithan
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This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling…
— Patrick deWitt
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. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
— Eavan Boland
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Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a…
— Gosho Aoyama
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I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had…
— Natsuki Takaya
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An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the…
— Haruki Murakami
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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know…
— Stephen King
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Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or…
— Mark Strand
Who Wrote These Surrounding Quotes
276 authors contributed a total of 317 Surrounding Quotes, led by these top contributors: