Quotes of: Surround-yourself Keyword

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

The Sign of Jonas

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

Night Games

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

Nightmarish Sacrifice

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

I find myself pausing to admire her face. For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings.

Legend

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

The Last of the Mohicans

The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire.

The Saint

I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.

Skipping Stones

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

Personalism

As the ice melted, we fell in love—slowly. I just wish the ice were in two glasses of vodka, and not surrounding our bodies.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.

An Unforgivable Secret

What surrounds us is what is within us.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fr...

Hugh Jackman

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

A. R. Rahman

People down on their luck deserve the best: beautiful surroundings and well-paid professional staff to help them out of their difficulties. Why not train thousands more social workers and let them sit in on claimants' interviews?

Sue Townsend

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

House of Leaves

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Jim Webb

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Nikola Tesla

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Pele

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Peace Pilgrim

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Rachel Corrie