Encounter Quotes

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Time, Thankful

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

May, Defeated, Defeats

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

Experience, Spiritual, Different

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

Fashion, Avoid, Cost

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Pope Paul VI

Faith, Great, God

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus

History, Happy, Misery

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton

Life, Change, Experience

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Before, Perfect, Sometimes

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

Great, Forget, Suffering

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal

Yourself, Children, Parents

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Makes, Face, Full

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin

History, Made, Often

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales

Time, Try, Break

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt

Wife, Job, Doubt

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus

Danger, Prosperity, Encounters

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

God, Powerful, Against

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan

Travel, Strange, Purpose

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicolas Chamfort

Morning, Nothing, Rest

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia

American, Both, Style

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

Age, Hit, Limitation

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love, Himself, Won

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
E. W. Howe

Hard, Problems, Difficult

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
Antonio Banderas

Life, Him, Actor

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
Lewis Thomas

Time, Good, Mistakes

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
Vera Farmiga

Time, Happy, Character

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
Dave Eggers

Government, Human, After

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
Tony Kushner

Life, Best, Hope

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.
Jarvis Cocker

Makes, Social, Level

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.
Josh Hutcherson

Life, School, Ways

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