Encounters Quotes

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least."

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.

When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.

Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.

That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

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 let them loose. Consider this your first encounter. (Solin)

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine.

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

The more people I meet the happier I become.

Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift