Encountered Quotes
219 Encountered quotes by 200 unique authors
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I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn…
— Matt Walsh
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root…
— Gautama Buddha
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Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching…
— Unknown Author
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the…
— Mircea Eliade
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Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us…
— Aaron Betsky
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Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had…
— George Stigler
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Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having…
— Kevin Powers
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Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell…
— Erik Larson
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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of…
— Stan Brakhage
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You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it…
— Ron Francis
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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
— H. L. Mencken
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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the…
— B. C. Forbes
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,…
— Richard Preston
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John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.
— James Berardinelli
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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
— William McFee
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Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a…
— Donald Trump
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
— Charles Darwin
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In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him…
— Alexander Waugh
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Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God…
— Catherine Marshall
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be…
— Samuel Smiles
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There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting…
— Jo Boaler
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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because…
— Lucretius
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It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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