Surroundings Quotes
328 quotes by 286 authors
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
— Honore de Balzac
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I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are…
— Claude Chabrol
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a…
— James Allen
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles,…
— Pamela Anderson
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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings,…
— Nan Fairbrother
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Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the…
— Deena Kastor
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,…
— Satish Kumar
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My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to…
— Julius Erving
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
— Emile Durkheim
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For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,…
— Edgar Cayce
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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If you appreciate your life, if you appreciate your job, if you appreciate yourself, if you appreciate your surroundings-poor or rich, whatever they are-you are…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
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Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to…
— Paul Feyerabend
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My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually…
— Freydoon Rassouli
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of…
— Paul Feyerabend
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In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being a runner. You are more…
— Grete Waitz
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