“Next to the fire is where you are born and where you die. Around the fire is where encounters are sealed.” — Paolo Rumiz Copy Share Image
You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion. — Davy Rothbart Copy Share Image
A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see. — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human… — Dinaw Mengestu 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
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
I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Trump says things others so desperately want to say to people that work, to people wherever they encounter them. Trump says it.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia.… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
![“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
![“The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15b/edward-gibbon-710_barbarians_the-peace-of-the-eastern-church-was-inva_2066326.png)
![“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles…” quote by Stuart Chase](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/stuart-chase-28756_america_i-sympathize-the-first-the-direct-and-si_487959.png)
