Encounters Quotes - Page 27

• Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

  Robyn

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  "The Beginning of Everything". Book by Robyn Schneider, August 27, 2013.

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• 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.

  Rick Yancey

  Believe, Outcomes, Existential

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Enlightenment, Enlightened

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.

  Don Lemon

  Care, Way, Health Care

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• The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Father, Self

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.116, Multnomah

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• The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Father, Exercise, Play

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Matter, Way

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• Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Sweet, Sex

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• He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Views, Atheism

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• If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, People, Unhappy

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Fields, Energy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

  John Maus

  People, Desire, Events

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

  John Maus

  Romantic Love, Strange, Surprise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Heart, Mean

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• Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Confused, Self

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• Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Important, Painting

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Deception, Sexuality

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

  Jon Champion

  Football, Numbers, Reason

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• A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.95

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• A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

  Desmond Morris

  Friendship, People, Relaxation

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.

  John Berger

  Zoos, Animal, Opportunity

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.

  Florence King

  Suicide, Country, Strong

  Florence King (1976). “Southern ladies and gentlemen”

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• The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Religious, Writing, Men

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• 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

  Boundaries, Knows, Our Lives

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