Surrounds Quotes
230 quotes by 192 authors
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The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move…
— Michel Gondry
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We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural…
— E. O. Wilson
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Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult…
— Barry Commoner
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds…
— Henri Matisse
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I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that…
— Vaclav Havel
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The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to…
— Glenn Gould
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People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know…
— Alexander von Humboldt
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee:…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as…
— John F. Kennedy
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There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which…
— Marcus Aurelius
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No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
— Khalil Gibran
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it.…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that…
— Vaclav Havel
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
— Henri Matisse
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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values…
— Jonathan Sacks
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