Compassed Quotes

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically. - Dan Deacon

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. - Bible

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: / Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. - Bible

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! - Herman Melville

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. - Robertson Davies

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. - Bible

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: / And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. - Bible