“ We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. ”
- John Archibald Wheeler- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 1.1K
“ When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. ”
- Bob Seger- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail. ”
- Charles Farrar Browne- Copy
- 737
“ Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
- 536
“ When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision. ”
- Bernard H. Goetz- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing. ”
- Cheryl James- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. ”
- Boris Johnson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. ”
- Matt LeBlanc- Copy
- 998
“ I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough, to stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, to be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
- 519
“ Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
- 2.3K
“ And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. ”
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill- Copy
- 3.6K
“ All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us… they can't get away this time. ”
- Chesty Puller- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. ”
- Charles Luckman- Copy
- 105
“ Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. ”
- Warren Buffett- Copy
- 206
“ I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ”
- Thomas Robert Dewar- Copy
- 27
“ The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3K
“ I was surrounded by these guys who were spies right after World War II, when they were paranoid at the Russians… I had school friends whose fathers I would see arrive home in uniform, and leave the next day in civilian clothes, and disappear for a month… ”
- Stuart Banks- Copy
- 3.1K
“ You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it. ”
- Robert Frank- Copy
- 2.4K
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