Encounters Quotes

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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; it isn't going to happen.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

If you encounter someone who pronounces the t in often, odds are they're a douchebag.