Encounter Quotes

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. - Gen Douglas MacArthur

Who cares how many wrong turns, zig-zags and detours we encounter? As long as we end up where we're meant to be. - Unknown

While we have experienced minor flooding in that section of the Beacon station parking lot in the past, this is the first time we encountered a buildup and volume of water as we did on Jan. 18. - Dan Brucker

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. - Emile Durkheim

Wherever I go, I encounter a lot of support. The tide is turning. - Gerhard Schroeder

Where the Truth Lies' is a sophisticated and intelligently provocative film... The NC-17 rating will unfairly limit people's access to it because of the number of theaters in America which will not play an NC-17 rated film. This film stars some of the most talented actors in the movies today, is based on a popular mainstream novel and is written and directed by a filmmaker known for his artistic integrity and achievement. The film has not encountered this kind of restrictive rating anywhere else in the free world. Only in America will many be deprived of access to it. - Robert Lantos

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall! - Victor Hugo

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. - Karlheinz Stockhausen

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