Surroundings Quotes

328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind… — Malcolm Mclaren
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on… — Ned Beauman
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go… — Ross Bleckner
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping… — Ron Conway
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same. — Jenna Dewan
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings. — Anthony Giddens
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like. — Howard Hodgkin
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,… — Allan Kaprow
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a… — Eleanor Robson Belmont
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. — William Henry O'Connell
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute… — Sue Thoele
Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self? — Christiane Northrup
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the… — Luther Standing Bear
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air. — Lisa Alther
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color… — Eugene Delacroix
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift… — Emily Carr
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter

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