Top 461 Encountered Quotes & Sayings

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

I've never encountered any star ego.

Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.

However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.

I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.

People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that's what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman.

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Almost every woman I've met has encountered bullying.

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

What makes me say "wow" is usually something I haven't encountered, in a new way... something I haven't encountered before or something I have encountered that I see in a new way.

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.