#rounded

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. ↗

— Kate Adie

#armed #contrary #danger #escort #even

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#grounded #i #keeps #like #me

You’re insane,” I told him, and stood up to dress. He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, “Insane for you, my love. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#grounded #love #rk-lilley #love

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ↗

— Jane Austen

#every man #man #neighborhood #spies #surrounded

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#future #how #paramount #present #surrounded

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.' ↗

— Celeste Holm

#ever #family #grounded #met #most

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#brown #challenged #come #expectations #experience

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. ↗

— James A. Michener

#american men #completely #dozen #group #men

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#being #child #child actor #daughter #ever

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#always #both #edge #live #man