Encounter Quotes

#1. The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: one of the choice ones of the earth.

Jon Meacham

#2. A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Wendy Beckett

#3. Q: Will I encounter turbulence?
A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.

Nicola Yoon

#4. The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

Edmund Morgan

#5. Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world that we encounter reveals the spectator and not life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Gore Vidal

#7. If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.

Frederick Lenz

#8. To encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen ...

Richard Ford

#9. Slain in the spirit is a term used in charismatic Christianity to describe a religious behavior in which an individual falls to the floor. This usually happens during an event they perceive as a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, often associated with the practice of laying on of hands.

Emeka O. Godwin

#10. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.

William Shakespeare

#11. God, according to all the great spiritual traditions, cannot be comprehended by the finite mind but can nevertheless be known in an intimate encounter with his presence - one that requires considerable discipline of the mind and will to achieve, but one also implicit in all ordinary experience

David Bentley Hart

#12. If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
Bitten into and returned to the box.

Ogden Nash

#13. Go too far outside "the box," of course, and you will encounter a vernacular that is much less "tolerant." Here, the key words are "fanatic," "troublemaker," "misfit" or "malcontent.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. As we become more mature in faith, learning to trust that God is capable of all things, we will see God as bigger and bigger every time we encounter Him.

Tracie Miles

#15. If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

Pope Francis

#16. There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

Pope Francis

#17. We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

Cynthia Moss

#18. 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

Dalai Lama

#20. When you work, live, love and play without waiting for the next moment, everything you are and encounter flourishes.

Ryan Kurczak

#21. I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#23. If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

Donald Miller

#24. What about a warning system?" Heloise said.
"The entire encounter lasted less than five seconds, Hel. I doubt that even with your admirable ability to sprint in heels, you would have been able to get there in time.

Gina Damico

#25. Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

Pope Benedict XVI

#26. As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#27. Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.

Ann Burton

#28. Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.

Markus Heitz

#29. What I mean is that you should never initiate an aggressive act, but if one is initiated against you or another innocent person, you should respond in such a way that ensures that the aggressor is the one who regrets the encounter.

Abraham Thornton

#30. I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

Dinaw Mengestu

#31. Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.

Alexandra Katehakis

#32. I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Richard Avedon

#33. One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.

Timothy Keller

#34. It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Frank Kermode

#35. Every time you encounter something that forces you to "handle it," your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.

Susan Jeffers

#36. Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
That every day with parle encounter me,
In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

William Shakespeare

#37. practice has become a real oasis in a chaotic week. It's when we invite the Holy Spirit to fill us again so we can get up on Sunday and sing in a way that leads people into a deeply personal encounter with God.

Carol Cymbala

#38. Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

Viktor E. Frankl

#39. In life, we have no control over the storms that we encounter. It's normal to feel devastated and sad, but to continue being sad is already our choice.

Kcat Yarza

#40. When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

Eric Ludy

#41. If you encounter defeat, you must persist to be a winner.

Debasish Mridha

#42. An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#43. The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

#44. The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

Pema Chodron

#45. Jesus died! He chose the most grueling death to bring you to God! Everything is changed! You and I were destined for a horrifying encounter with God - we were "objects of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) - but that has all changed! Death no longer scares me! I can't wait to die! Thank you Jesus!!!

Francis Chan

#46. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Brennan Manning

#47. The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring.

Charles F. Glassman

#48. Everyday, there are many unremarkable encounters but...
Later on, there will be an encounter big enough to change your life.
That's why, I want to treasure each one of those.

Aya Nakahara

#49. How would your life be different if ... You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day ... You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli

#50. And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).

Kola Boof

#51. This [worldly life] is a huge entanglement; every sub-atomic particle of it is an entanglement and it is impossible to break free from it. Which is why the Lord has said, 'If you encounter a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], remain with Him'.

Dada Bhagwan

#52. 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

#53. Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Jack Nicholson

#54. Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

Tom Watson

#55. 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

#56. The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#57. Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Bell Hooks

#58. I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

Jane Fonda

#59. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

#60. Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

Carolyn Kizer

#62. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

John Eldredge

#63. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

James E. Faust

#64. I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

Josh Hutcherson

#65. No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

Ray Kurzweil

#66. Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Timothy Keller

#67. Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

Ezra Klein

#68. I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you know exactly what you're getting into.

Marisa De Los Santos

#69. 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.

Lionel Blue

#70. Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Alfred North Whitehead

#71. Being with" Christ does not mean isolating ourselves from others. Rather, it is a "being with" in order to go forth and encounter others.

Pope Francis

#72. The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#73. I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think ... They seek peace, encounter.

Pope Francis

#74. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#75. The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

Gloria Steinem

#76. I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

Catherine Keener

#77. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis De Sales

#78. The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.

Seth Shostak

#79. See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.

Wayne Dyer

#80. The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Nicholas Royle

#81. I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#82. There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

Cynthia Ozick

#83. Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Cory Booker

#84. What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.

Alain De Botton

#85. Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three - and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

David Markson

#86. Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#87. Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

Rajneesh

#88. The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Albert Schweitzer

#89. Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Emil Cioran

#90. Deep things are revealed to you in every encounter with God

Sunday Adelaja

#91. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

Ben Okri

#92. We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

Charles R. Swindoll

#93. The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

Sue Monk Kidd

#94. That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family.

James Wolcott

#95. When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

Shawn Achor

#96. Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas.

Sukarno

#97. My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

Annie Leibovitz

#98. If any of your body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a crank, I highly advise you leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless it's a leg, of course.

James Dashner

#99. Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?

Holly Hood

#100. Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.

Arianna Huffington