Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been… — Liv Ullmann
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty.… — Teri Hatcher
Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the many varied and… — Larisa Oleynik
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself. — Carole Bouquet
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a… — Wentworth Miller
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode
Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts.Â I remember the first time he saw me in a boudoir, in… — Maila Nurmi
Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond… — Markus Heitz
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like… — Dinaw Mengestu
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to… — George Washington
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very… — Annie Leibovitz
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism — Jurgen Habermas
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the… — Gilles Deleuze
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. — Ivan Turgenev
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; â€˜Star Trekâ€™ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science… — Harlan Ellison
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. — Alain Badiou
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's… — Alain Badiou
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent,… — Jay McInerney

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