Encounters Quotes

• How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Remember
  • Devil
  • Beer

• Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Different
  • Childhood
  • Process

• Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Emotion
  • Brand
  • Mail

• Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Drained

• Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Flash
  • Glimpse
  • Tiny

• When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Beginning
  • Enemy
  • Stories

• In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series of elaborate steps that one has to - has to encounter in order to even begin to do research. There's an attorney. If you want to photocopy material from that archive, you have to get permission from the attorney beforehand.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Cases
  • Attorney
  • Archives

• Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Cooking
  • Cooks
  • Cajuns

• Chance encounters are what keep us going.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Chance
  • Keep Going
  • Encounters

• There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

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

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Truth
  • Encounters

• A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Work
  • Men
  • She

• The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

  

  Merry Clayton
  • Ready
  • Next
  • Backgrounds

• Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

  

  William Boyd
  • Thinking
  • Rich
  • Exhausted

• How one encounters reality is a choice.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Reality
  • Choice
  • Encounters

• All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • Voice
  • Intelligent
  • Encounters

• We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Wish
  • Failing
  • Gratification

• Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

  

  Wess Stafford
  • Children
  • Divine
  • Appointments

• This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Facts
  • Firsts

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Lonely
  • Offers
  • Encounters

• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Different
  • Growth
  • Objectivity

• In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Age
  • Reality
  • Chance

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