Encounter Quotes

716 Encounter quotes by 535 unique authors

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But… — Larry Flynt
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. — Mohsin Hamid
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. — Nhat Hanh
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense… — Sam Harris
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter. — Patricia Heaton
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. — E. W. Howe
I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life. — Josh Hutcherson
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and… — Naveen Jain
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. — Denis Leary
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. — Guy de Maupassant
The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. — Bryant H. McGill
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. — Marshall McLuhan
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down. — Meshell Ndegeocello
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. — Jack Nicholson
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. — Yoko Ono
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style… — Camille Paglia
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this… — Pope Paul VI
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize… — Albert Pike
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters. — Josh Radnor

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