What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust. — Willis Regier 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
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
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic! — Andrew Lord Copy Share Image
Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control. — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter,… — Pema Chodron 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
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
To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin… — Deena Metzger 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
Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
