Quotes About Surroundings

Doubtless we owe it to a divine dispensation that our land is veined with silver; if we consider how many neighbouring states lie round us by land and sea and yet into none of them does a single thinnest vein of silver penetrate.

Dalam masalah pribadi maupun politik, aku sering menimbulkan teka-teki pada orang lain. Biasanya para presiden duduk bersandar dan menunggu untuk dilayani. Sukarno tidak. Aku baru merasa bahagia kalau orang yang berada disekitarku merasa bahagia.

But I had to look at something else beyond the man—the people who surrounded him—and I felt that Kennedy was surrounded by better people. It was on that basis that I felt that Kennedy would make the best president.

She was the product of her circumstances, of her time and place...

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

The world is always outside. And it is in the world that we must live.

All around her was color: rich, vibrant color. She was the only colorless thing in this whole house.

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.... The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

There was a couple weeks when I was like, I'm going vegan and gluten free. Then I was trying all these weird diets because I think there was this element of control over my surroundings that that gave me.

The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.

Then I notice, about a hundred yards away, to my right, a tall, black metal fence and, beyond, some buildings.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

Your environment should be your time marker

Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate.

It's always nice to have someplace to come home to. At best, it's a place where you can rest and be refreshed by familiar surroundings and well-loved people. At worst, at least you remember why you wanted to go away on adventures in the first place.

purlieus of London

whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure.

Needless to say, the realization had never penetrated to Fat's mind that Sherri sought out this kind of abode. Her dingy surroundings came as a result of her affliction, not as a cause; she could recreate these conditions wherever she went—which Fat eventually discovered.