Quotes of: Encounters Keyword

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

An Italian Journey

It was as though God's hand was reaching down to Anna, and she was reaching her hands to Harvey and Joe, creating a circle of love.

A Secret Encounter

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

The Terror

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Veronika Decides to Die

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

Voice of Reason

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the st...

Alvar Aalto

One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Ogwo David Emenike

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

Prince Andrew

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

Roberto Bolano

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

Robin Marantz Henig

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.

Sylvia Earle

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

Sophie Hannah

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

Karl Jaspers

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Michael Leunig