Encounters Quotes

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.

What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.

If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.

From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

Reggie [Bush] is the slowest person anyone will ever encounter. I don't understand how he's so fast on the field. He's like a slug!

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.