You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There exists a cell of policemen within the Delhi Police which is accountable to no one but itself. Operating without uniforms, these… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's… — Graham Kendrick Copy Share Image
Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There are people who, when they encounter inability to understand, do not ask the Lord. But one must immediately say, "Lord, I… — Silouan the Athonite 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
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade,… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror,… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image