Quotes of: Encounters Keyword

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Liz Smith

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

Melissa Etheridge

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

Mohsin Hamid

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.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

Roh Moo-hyun

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

Jen Kirkman

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

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

Dave Eggers

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

Ben Mendelsohn

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

Lee Norris

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Gwendoline Christie

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Craig Brown

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

George Jean Nathan

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

Jean Dujardin

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Thomas Sowell

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Richard Gere

I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

Warren Kole

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.

William Stone

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Michael D. Higgins

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Gerald Edelman