Surround Quotes - Page 3

• It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Animal, Surround Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

  Rashida Jones

  People, Want, Ifs

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• I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.

  Jessie J

  People, Laughing, Upset

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.

  Karen Marie Moning

  People, Easy, Midst

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 29, 2015

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• There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ocean

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• There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Space, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada

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• The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Real, People

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• And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.

  T.A. Barron

  Dream, Book, Miracle

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Lost Years”, p.65, Penguin

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• Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Moving, Fall

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• And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Crowds, Far Away, All Alone

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• The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Ignorance, Views

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• Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.

  Bill Bryson

  Children, Confused, Views

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• Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

  Victoria Justice

  Good Friend, Trying, Care

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• Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, People

  "Oprah Kardashian Interview: Kim Kardashian Says Was Depressed After Divorce". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

  Jean Paul

  Children, Evil, Atmosphere

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• It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

  Brad Paisley

  Guy, Band, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

  Jenny Downham

  Baby, Pulse, Teeth

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.182, Random House

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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 freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, People, Feelings

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• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Good Will, Decency

  "Ted Nugent: 'More guns equals less crime'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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• We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

  Joyce Meyer

  Imperfect World, People, World

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• Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Strong, Fear, Stories

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

  Lindsay Lohan

  People, Surround Yourself, Good People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Happy Life, Space, Wish

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• I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

  Kesha

  Funny, Party, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Clothes, People

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