Top Encounters Quotes Collection

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Image of Marc Riboud
I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.
- Marc Riboud
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Image of David Steindl-Rast
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.
- David Steindl-Rast
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Image of Bill Johnson
We owe the world an encounter with God
- Bill Johnson
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Image of Iyanla Vanzant
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
- Iyanla Vanzant
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Image of George Monbiot
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.
- George Monbiot
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Image of Clare Vanderpool
...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.
- Clare Vanderpool
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Image of Zig Ziglar
The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Adrian Lyne
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
- Adrian Lyne
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Image of Jack W. Hayford
Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence
- Jack W. Hayford
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Image of Georgette Leblanc
we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.
- Georgette Leblanc
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Image of Frank Kermode
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
- Frank Kermode
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Image of Marin Mersenne
Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.
- Marin Mersenne
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Image of Susan Meiselas
I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
- Susan Meiselas
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Image of Ana Castillo
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
- Ana Castillo
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Image of Casper Smart
There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.
- Casper Smart
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Image of Leith Anderson
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.
- Leith Anderson
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Image of C. Douglas Dillon
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.
- C. Douglas Dillon
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Image of Don Lemon
The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.
- Don Lemon
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Image of Mike Donehey
Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.
- Mike Donehey
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Image of Max Anders
There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.
- Max Anders
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Image of Jurgen Habermas
The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.
- Jurgen Habermas
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Image of Debra Granik
There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.
- Debra Granik
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Image of Danny Silk
The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives.
- Danny Silk
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Image of Kosho Uchiyama
Everything you encounter is your life.
- Kosho Uchiyama
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Image of Arthur Desmond
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
- Arthur Desmond
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Image of Willem de Kooning
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
- Willem de Kooning
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Image of Merrilee Boyack
We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least."
- Merrilee Boyack
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Image of J. K. Rowling
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Sherry Turkle
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?
- Sherry Turkle
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Image of Gustavo Gutiérrez
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
- Gustavo Gutiérrez
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Image of Heraclitus
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
- Heraclitus
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Image of J. K. Rowling
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Ayn Rand
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Curtis Sittenfeld
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Image of Gore Vidal
I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
- Gore Vidal
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Image of Parker J. Palmer
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
- Parker J. Palmer
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Image of R. C. Sproul
When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.
- R. C. Sproul
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Image of Stefan Zweig
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.
- Stefan Zweig
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Image of Heather Brewer
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.
- Heather Brewer
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Image of Bill Johnson
Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.
- Bill Johnson
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Image of Tara Brach
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Irvin D. Yalom
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
- Irvin D. Yalom
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Image of Sophie Swetchine
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
- Sophie Swetchine
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Image of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Image of Robert Breault
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.
- Robert Breault
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Image of John le Carre
Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.
- John le Carre
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Image of Leo Buscaglia
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
- Leo Buscaglia
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Image of Paulo Coelho
Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.
- Paulo Coelho
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