Top 317 Encounters Quotes & Sayings

I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex. None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters were very positive and reinforcing on the part of the father of a son. Some were occasions where a father had to tell his son or his sons that the path that they were following was incorrect before the Lord.

Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.

By studying the Bible one can at best know about God. There is a vast difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing God comes through direct power encounters and through biblical study. These power encounters are usually of a variety which cannot be found within the context of the dusty moldy pages of God's past tracks.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

I've had a few alien encounters.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

Personally, I never had any negative encounters with the law growing up.

I've had some strange fan encounters, that's for sure.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

If Cole and I are together, we're noticeable. Fan encounters come with the job, and you can't shy away from them.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

The encounters I had were very few, but they were powerful. The negative encounters I've had with law enforcement were very few, but they stood out.

I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched my capacity to abstract intellectually. The experience of being with workers, my encounters with management and my recognition of its foibles, my personal encounters with American industrial efficiency, my military experience - all of these things packaged together have greatly enriched my reading and my understanding, and I've written with what I hope is a reasonable fluency of style that is much more expressive than the academic stuff.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

I've had a few ghostly encounters.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.