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Quotes About Surrounding

Every soul is surrounded by an atmosphere of its own—an atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with the fragrance of love. Or it may be heavy and chill with the gloom of discontent and selfishness, or poisonous with the deadly taint of cherished sin. By the atmosphere surrounding us, every person with whom we come in contact is consciously or unconsciously affected.
~ Ellen G. White
She felt herself as the speck she was: a mote, a tiny struggling imperfect chip of life, lost in the surrounding waste of light and space.
~ banks iain m iii
Nothing Elegant Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946 A charm a single charm is doubtful. If the red is rose and there is a gate surrounding it, if inside is let in and there places change then certainly something is upright. It is earnest.
~ Gertrude Stein
You have two jobs in funding your ministry. God has three—and His are harder! Yours are the following: Invite friends, family, and acquaintances to join your support team. Thank, inform, and minister to your giving partners. God's three jobs are more complicated: Calling you to ministry. Surrounding you with potential partners. Leading them to make stewardship decisions
~ Scott Morton
With us [...] the enemy isn't over the hill or in any specific direction. It's all around.
~ Markus Zusak
Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom, and its typical cowardice is to bathe in its own glow and avoid, as much as possible, looking out beyond its boundary.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
It's everywhere. It's right on top of us. It coils around us like a snake. We're all inside it. It's already swallowed us whole.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Sandstorm's sweet scent all around him.
~ Erin Hunter
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
~ Conrad Black
With stable, long-lived teams that own specific bits of the software systems, we can begin to build a stable team API: an API surrounding each team.
~ Matthew Skelton
The reason why there are so many police officers surrounding this house is because they want to make sure that we do not remove anything before a search warrant is issued. They have made it crystal clear that they want no Kardashians on this one." Kardashian. As in O.J. The man had changed law lexicon forever.
~ Harlan Coben
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~ Sun Tzu
To a surrounded enemy you must leave a way of escape. Show him there is a road to safety, and so create in his mind the idea that there is an alternative to death. Then strike.
~ Sun Tzu
Me ciñe, innumerable, la ciudad
~ Juan José Saer
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
~ Fran Lebowitz
At night we turned all the lights in every room of our house on. We turned the lights on the front porch on. We turned the lights on the back porch and over the garage on too. We wanted to keep the darkness that surrounded our house and us as far away from us as we could.
~ Michael Kimball
Love surrounds me and protects me.
~ Louise Hay
In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be found in the world, existing only in imagination, and on account of her they are jealous of the surrounding air, of the laws of nature, of the millennia that went by before her.
~ Boris Pasternak
The fog surrounding the boy retreated when Eli stopped not ten feet from him.
~ Ted Dekker
The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No, the settee was already taken, and the floor didn't look all that appealing. She settled on wringing her hands. It was the best she could do to look upset.
~ Julie Garwood
For all its cleanliness — not a weed in sight — the place was bankrupt of anything beautiful. But it wasn't just the orphanage. All the surrounding buildings were dismal gray, as though beauty were a frivolity of the rich.
~ Justina Chen
When Erin arrived, she saw an old man stretched out on the floor. He was surrounded by young medical technicians in blue jumpsuits. One of them knelt beside the lifeless form, thumping the man's chest in perfect time to Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation,' which was playing on the club speakers.
~ Carl Hiaasen
The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself.
~ Terry Goodkind
There is much Light, as we shall see, that is continually surrounding such a soul even though it may not be able to directly penetrate it, and there is much assistance for souls that insist upon living in darkness. The encouragement to take even one thought into Light is always available. Eventually, they always do.
~ Gary Zukav