#surround

I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people. ↗

— Sara Quin

#living-on-the-fringe #outsider #sara-quin #solitude #surrounded-by-people

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#appreciate #around #goodness #people #positive

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#among #architectural #describe #details #enough

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#kind #lends #our #study #surroundings

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#controlled #home #masks #surroundings #their

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#contained #deity #infinite #ourselves #space

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. ↗

— William Bennett

#make #our #peace #surrounded #too

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#could #fish #genius #island #made

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar. ↗

— Sean Booth

#i #i think #like #listening #lot

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#enriching #feeling #i #me #mind