Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter. — Patricia Heaton
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. — E. W. Howe
I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life. — Josh Hutcherson
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and… — Naveen Jain
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. — Denis Leary
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that… — Max Lucado
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. — Naguib Mahfouz
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. — Guy de Maupassant
The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. — Bryant H. McGill
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. — Marshall McLuhan
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. — George Jean Nathan
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down. — Meshell Ndegeocello
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. — Jack Nicholson
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. — Yoko Ono
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style… — Camille Paglia
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this… — Pope Paul VI
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. — Pablo Picasso
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize… — Albert Pike
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters. — Josh Radnor
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. — Saint Francis de Sales
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We… — Albert Schweitzer
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter… — John Sexton
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. — William Shakespeare
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost… — Lewis Thomas

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