First Encounter Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on…
— W.C. Fields
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
— Philip Pullman
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It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of…
— Dian Fossey
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Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
— Jeff Bezos
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At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
— Robert B. Laughlin
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.
— Zig Ziglar
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I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The…
— Dian Fossey
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they…
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
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My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
— Richard Gere
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
— Desmond Tutu
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
— Joseph Campbell
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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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You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik) Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this…
— Michael Leunig
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My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together…
— Wayne Wonder
Who Wrote These First Encounter Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 First Encounter Quotes as follows: