Encountered Quotes

219 quotes by 204 authors

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. — Georg Brandes
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life. — George H. W. Bush
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so… — Walter J. Phillips
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the… — Rajneesh
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or… — Gustave Courbet
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Dennis Price
There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often… — Edwin Paxton Hood
Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads. — Guy Cook
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I… — Carl Jung
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the… — Albert Camus
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as… — Evelyn Waugh
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is… — Roger Schank
I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and… — Paul O'Grady
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. — Peter Straub

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