When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious.… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
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I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles… — Douglas Smith Copy Share Image
Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea… — Moby Copy Share Image
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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
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
People who cannot respect others for their good qualities - people who only look at the bad in others - are no… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
In all of my encounters with voters, I have repeatedly been confronted with two points of critique. First: You politicians are all… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Hannibal Lecter:… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image