Surroundings Quotes

328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes… — Josef Sudek
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in… — Bill Brandt
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works.… — Unknown Author
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very… — Unknown Author
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid… — Verner Panton
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton
Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the… — Chris Wooding
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative. — Bill Bailey
Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after… — Dianna Agron
We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings. — Amber Valletta
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I… — River Phoenix
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign… — Joseph Conrad
How many things would be different in everyoneâ€™s surroundings if we hadnâ€™t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something… — Rudolf Dreikurs

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