Nice Surround Quotes & Sayings

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan

I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by heart. It's like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a group who sang a famous song. It's something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there's an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can't rest until I know the answer.'
'I Understand,' he said softly. — Cecelia Ahern

politicians are like movie stars. They surround themselves with sycophants and yes-men and people to whisper nice shit into their ears - and a lot of them start believing it, because they want to believe it. — Anonymous

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things. — Rory Kinnear

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed. — Patrick Henry

But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she was little, how she's lived in fear of being eaten alive by the morons around her. They just don't get it.
Mom always lectures me about not being afraid of getting hurt, but all she can imagine is the kind of hurt she's experienced herself. She has no idea of the threats that surround kids these days, how much we're bullied, how much hurt this causes. — Natsuo Kirino

The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be. — Constant Lambert

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone. — Caroline Winberg

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move. — John Dewey

Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless — Edgar Allan Poe

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music. — Alan Palomo

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason. — Aldous Huxley

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other. — Jim Butcher

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win. — Terry Waite

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. — Lord Chesterfield