Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about… — Studs Terkel
You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many… — Larry David
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… — Herbert Marcuse
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work… — Neil Gaiman
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And… — Ana Castillo
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb
Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter. — Paulo Coelho
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness,… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a… — Heather Brewer
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfâ€”be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The… — Viktor E. Frankl
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences… — Wassily Kandinsky
In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes,… — May Sarton
some may think that to affirm dialogueâ€”the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the worldâ€”is naively and subjectively idealistic.… — Paulo Freire
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for… — Douglas Adams

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