One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves.… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that isn't mortal or decisive can be productive only of a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick /… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter. — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
