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Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. -- John Updike
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A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person. -- Dan Gilroy
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. -- Catherine Booth
True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability. -- Monica Johnson
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. -- James Gunn
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass. -- Twyla Tharp
Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay. -- Miroslav Volf
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome. -- James D. Watson
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them. -- Ann Brashares
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for? -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship. -- Erwin McManus
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus. -- Alexander McCall Smith
In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy. -- Sri Chinmoy
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare. -- Paul Di Filippo
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions. -- Samantha Power
I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media. -- Grant Morrison
My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator. -- Seth Shostak
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. -- Barry Commoner
The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner. -- Matt Cartwright
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it. -- M. F. Husain
Betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole. -- Nancy Wait
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. -- Confucius
How much Joy can a human mind encompass in one lifetime? -- Michael Levy, Baron Levy
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between. -- Mary Roach
Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra. -- Frederick Lenz
Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra. -- Frederick Lenz
Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. -- Tom Boellstorff
Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it. -- Robin McKinley
Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all. -- Hal Borland
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love. -- Marya Mannes
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world. -- Amit Ray
The right to privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. -- Harry A. Blackmun
We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity. -- Lachlan Murdoch
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it. -- Bruce Sterling
We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others. -- Solange nicole
Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream. -- Tom Stafford
It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information. -- Frederick Busch
McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women. -- Ron Dennis
One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? She wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment? -- Sarah Mayberry
Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep -- Khalil Gibran
There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene. -- Amit Ray
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. -- John Dewey
Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. -- Ray Bradbury
Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God. -- Criss Jami
Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God." -- Criss Jami
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. -- Joseph Addison
There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much. -- Faith Hill
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here. -- Franz Kafka
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine. -- Walter Truett Anderson
Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being. -- Danielle Pierre
We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBMÂ® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment. -- Charles Koch
The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile. -- Ross Perot
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass. -- Brian Aldiss
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. -- Vachel Lindsay
Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words. -- Julian Whitaker
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on. -- Paul Beatty
The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility. -- Kevin Hearne
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision. -- Jean Nouvel
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers -- Anne Rice

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