Encounters Quotes - Page 11

• The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Opportunity, Journey

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• Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Girl, Gay, Flirting

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• Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

  Jack McDevitt

  Stars, Laughter, Wine

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• We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least."

  Merrilee Boyack

  Might

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• But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Long, Risk

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.54, Zondervan

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• The U.S. continues the search for Osama bin Laden. Reports suggest that bin Laden is most likely hiding out somewhere remote and barren, where he will not encounter others. The FBI has begun searching theaters showing the movie 'Glitter.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Glitter, Osama Bin Laden, Hiding

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• But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Doe, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.315, Library of America

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• 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

  Character, People

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• If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Doing You, Example

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• When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cutting, Idols, Ideas

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it.

  Maisie Williams

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Arya Stark Speaks: Maisie Williams On Season 3 Finale, Her Red Wedding Vine". Interview with Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.

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• I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

  Chris Tucker

  People, Hours, Minutes

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• I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.

  Susan Meiselas

  Perspective, Tourists, Records

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• I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

  Susan Meiselas

  Tradition, Photograph, Evidence

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• All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.

  Edouard Boubat

  Photography, Sight, Wipe

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• If you encounter someone who pronounces the t in often, odds are they're a douchebag.

  Dana Gould

  Odds, Douchebags, Ifs

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• For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

  Charles Traub

  Interesting, Serendipity, Chance

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• You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Mind, May, Remember

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• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Believe, Silence, Desire

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• In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, School, College

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• How one encounters reality is a choice.

  Martin Heidegger

  Reality, Choices

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• I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses' inner being. ... There was a Holy Narrator beside me who helped me understand what I saw and heard, and he made references to relevant passages of Scripture. There were other Biblical figures also present - Joshua, Samuel, David, and even the Lord Jesus were there.

  Bob Hartley

  Jesus, Taken, Biblical

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• You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

  William Finnegan

  Past, Dragons, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

  Karen Russell

  Real, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.

  Randall Mann

  Art, Sick, Everyday

  Source: therumpus.net

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