Encounters Quotes - Page 16

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

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

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

I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that I cannot see very well, that I cannot detect very well, and to put myself in a position where I'm going to be suspected as a being entering a territory of other beings, and I'm also going to suspect them. I have to be very alert, and they are going to be very alert - this kind of position I felt was very much what is going on in the world for me.

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

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

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

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.'

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.

In all of my encounters with voters, I have repeatedly been confronted with two points of critique. First: You politicians are all the same! Second: You politicians may be speaking German, but we still don't understand you!

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series of elaborate steps that one has to - has to encounter in order to even begin to do research. There's an attorney. If you want to photocopy material from that archive, you have to get permission from the attorney beforehand.

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.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in a such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never foget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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