Encountered Quotes
219 Encountered quotes by 200 unique authors
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it…
— K. Eric Drexler
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We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who…
— Moses Mendelssohn
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises,…
— Ibrahim Rugova
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Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and…
— Carol Bellamy
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We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which…
— Kathy Acker
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave…
— Walter Jon Williams
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the…
— Asa Gray
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father…
— Tobias Wolff
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My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was…
— Cathleen Falsani
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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another…
— Dante Alighieri
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Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of…
— Shahzia Sikander
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I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.
— David S. Goyer
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I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
— David S. Goyer
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Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.
— Pope Francis
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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
— Cheryl Strayed
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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are many different forms of life in the universe and human beings are unaware of most of them. Complex beings inhabit other dimensions. They…
— Frederick Lenz
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Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to…
— Juno Temple
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The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the…
— Ben Mendelsohn
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I…
— Alexey Leonov
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The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and…
— Bob Hope
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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was…
— Chris Kyle
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Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.
— George W. Bush
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and…
— Philip Yancey
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Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones…
— Edward Hoagland
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