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Quotes About Surround

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
~ Steven Spielberg
Like a wing sweeping them into its embrace, the storm closed around them.
~ Steven Erikson
It really is a sign of appalling feebleness, I thought, if people fill their apartments with furniture belonging to past ages rather than their own, the harshness and brutality of which they are unable to endure. What they do, it seems to me, is surround themselves with the softness of the dead past that cannot answer back.
~ Thomas Bernhard
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
~ Isaac Asimov
I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
~ Jessica White
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
~ Sun Tzu
Be picky about vibes. Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with. You owe yourself that much.
~ Unknown
Wilt thou still worship the destroyer, and surround her image with fantasies the more magnificent, the more evil she has wrought? Thus man doth ever to his tyrants.
~ Nathanial Hawthorne
In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.
~ Robin Sacredfire
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
~ Sylvester Stallone
My lady, Percival began. He had called her that yesterday, and she had guessed it was some kind of elaborate sarcasm. But this didn't seem like the time for unpleasant jibes. Maybe it was just the way he'd been raised. Cnan wished she could meet Percival's mother. I cannot recommend that you remain in that position, he said, considering that hostile archers, in large numbers, are about to surround you.
~ Neal Stephenson
To be in a habitat—even a quite large and cosmopolitan one—when the Eye came around was, in pre-Zero terms, a little bit like being in a small town on the prairie and having a mobile Manhattan suddenly roll over the horizon, surround you, have a hundred kinds of intercourse with you, and then move on.
~ Neal Stephenson
Life will become intolerable for a bearded man when children rise up out of the pavement at every step, and surround him with the loud shouts of "Beaver!"
~ Robert Lynd, "Beaver," 1922
I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.
~ Frankie Boyle
beg you to join me here, that you may sample for yourself the delights that surround me.
~ Laurence Bergreen
To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.
~ Charles Dickens
I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."
~ Wendy C. Ortiz
Our thoughts, our faith, our beliefs, our efforts, all materialize, and are objectified about us. Our words become flesh and live with us; our thoughts, our emotions, also become flesh and live with us; they become our environment and surround us.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.
~ Charles Trevelyan
Adiar um choro não faz sentido. Tristeza é como um crocodilo violento cercando você. Só dá para ignorá-lo enquanto ele não está devorando tudo ao seu redor
~ Lemony Snicket
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The great and good receive their accolades. But love can surround in glory the lives of little people. Pam Brown
~ Helen Exley
legends to surround it—giving history to what had just
~ Tracie Peterson