Encountered Quotes

You're talking about a guy that everybody wrote off as a player coming out of college. I've got more respect for him than any other player I've encountered in the game. - Steve Watson

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too. - Ron Francis

You can go outside and have a straightener on the cobbles with your fists or you can go shoot kids, ... I've encountered the direct aftermath of gang activity in Venice [Beach] with my mum, walking down the street, where we got caught for 12 hours, we couldn't get my car out, because two kids had been shot dead and one of them had landed with his head touching the tire of my car. - Charlie Hunnam

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. - Elizabeth Moon

Yet behind that extraordinary front presented to the world was one of the shrewdest political minds I ever encountered. - Tony Blair

With all of the problems we encountered, the project could have taken another two or three months had we just blocked off one side of the street. With what we found later, we would have had to redo some of our work. - Tom Moore

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

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

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