Encounter Quotes - page 3

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. (Winston Churchill)
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows. View quote
Joseph Conrad
All actual life is encounter. View quote
Martin Buber
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
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. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us. View quote
Rick Yancey
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening. View quote
Sophie Hannah
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet. View quote
William Boyd
The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you. (Jane Goldman)
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently. View quote
George Johnson
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter. View quote
Allan Hamilton
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. View quote
Adrienne Clarkson
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. View quote
Billy Higgins
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. View quote
Bjorn Lomborg
Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place. View quote
Brian Weiss
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. View quote
Catherine Crier
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. View quote
Dar Williams
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. (Frederick Reines)
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. View quote
Gwendoline Christie
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity. View quote
Lionel Blue
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. View quote
Lionel Blue
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down. View quote
Meshell Ndegeocello