You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history. — Gustavo Gutiérrez 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
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be… — John Green Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in… — Glen E. Morrell Copy Share Image
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
