Best Surroundings Qoutes
328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors
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You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your…
— Judith McNaught
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With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.
— Gary Snyder
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded…
— Ernst Junger
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To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by…
— Wendell Berry
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the…
— Rachel Carson
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[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their…
— Brennan Manning
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We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes…
— Jane Hamilton
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She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with…
— Grace Lin
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After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while…
— Jeaniene Frost
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
— Thomas Hardy
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Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
— Danielle Steel
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Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings,…
— Richelle Mead
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
— Anton Chekhov
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To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade…
— Rebecca Solnit
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We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our…
— Alain de Botton
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at…
— Sebastian Faulks
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I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into…
— Charles de Lint
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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had…
— Thomas Hardy
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...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more…
— Tove Jansson
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The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.
— Daniel Handler
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In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,…
— John Irving
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No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that…
— Christopher Alexander
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