Encounters Quotes
743 quotes by 576 authors
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction;…
— Margaret Atwood
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are…
— Sai Baba
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As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
— Antonio Banderas
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making…
— David Brin
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The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The…
— Alvar Aalto
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
— Albert Camus
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
— Maya Angelou
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not…
— Maya Angelou
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There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
— James E. Faust
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Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your…
— Douglas Smith
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In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the challenge head on…
— Beth Anders
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We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
— Og Mandino
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
— Abraham Kaplan
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Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.
— Jeff Cox
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
— Maya Angelou
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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