Encountered Quotes

219 Encountered quotes by 200 unique authors

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be… — Viggo Mortensen
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their… — Michael Nesmith
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real.… — Tom Petty
I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway. — Unknown Author
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first… — Bruce Springsteen
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered. — Lincoln Steffens
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became… — Theodore Sturgeon
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively… — Hunter S. Thompson
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. — Douglas MacArthur
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. — Wendell Berry
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that… — Henry B. Eyring
Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know… — William S. Burroughs
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very… — Leo Tolstoy
Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in… — Christopher Paolini
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,… — Karl Marx
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it… — Arthur Golden
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without… — Diana Gabaldon
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know. — Daniel Handler
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered… — Barbara Mertz
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature. — John Knowles
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded… — Salman Rushdie
The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and… — Janet Fitch
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. — Annie Dillard
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being… — Pascal Mercier
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is… — Martin Heidegger

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