Encounter Quotes

716 Encounter quotes by 535 unique authors

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. — Saint Francis de Sales
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We… — Albert Schweitzer
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter… — John Sexton
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. — William Shakespeare
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 it a lost… — Lewis Thomas
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. — Desmond Tutu
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. — Gore Vidal
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the… — James Joyce
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… — Dag Hammarskjold
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and… — Winston Churchill
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded,… — Thomas S. Monson
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell

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