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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. -- Philip Emeagwali
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. -- Lionel Blue
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. -- Craig Brown
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. -- Bob Edwards
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. -- Lionel Blue
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life. -- George H. W. Bush
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. -- Susan B. Anthony
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie. -- Bruce Springsteen
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. -- Orison Swett Marden
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere. -- Michael Nesmith
Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there. -- Chris Kyle
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. -- Joshua Chamberlain
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. -- Kathy Acker
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. -- Tom Petty
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. -- Theodore Sturgeon
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. -- Stan Brakhage
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. -- Dorothea Lange
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. -- A. J. Liebling
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in. -- Julianne Moore
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. -- Steve Jobs
You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private schools, you know, encountered different people who think that it's OK to make comments, insensitive comments about your race because they're joking. And think that if they're joking and they say it, you know, good-naturedly, that things will fly. -- Issa Rae
On every journey, we encountered beautiful souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We encountered beautiful souls on the travel path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. -- Patrick Marber
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. -- Fran Lebowitz
I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something. -- Conor McGregor
Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit? -- S.A. Tawks
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. -- Wendell Berry
True Blood' fans are as enthusiastic as any fans I've ever encountered. -- Jim Parrack
Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. -- Dottie Walters
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. -- James A. Baldwin
I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself. -- Harper Lee
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. -- William Faulkner
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes. -- David Attenborough
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered. -- Lincoln Steffens
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. -- Margot Fonteyn
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. -- Peter Straub
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time -- Margot Fonteyn
North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered. -- Dave Liebman
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. -- Douglas MacArthur
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature. -- John Knowles
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . -- Frederick Douglass
Any believer who has not encountered the Cross is not yet a follower of Christ -- S. E. Entsua-Mensah
You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not -- Neale Donald Walsch
John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days. -- James Berardinelli
I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult. -- David S. Goyer
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship? -- William McFee
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. -- Mark Twain
I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway. -- Pink
I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis. -- Amit Kalantri
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. -- Charles Darwin
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any. -- Martin Luther
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure. -- Ahmed Zewail
... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, -- Herman Melville
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. -- Ernest Cline
When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will. -- Richard Blackaby
Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes. -- George S. Patton
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. -- Sylvia Brownrigg
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. -- Melissa Etheridge
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. -- Steve Maraboli
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. -- Chinua Achebe
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered. -- Albert Einstein
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. -- Dennis Price
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. -- George Eliot
Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst. -- Pope Francis
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it -- Mark Nepo
The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations. -- Jack Paar
Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing. -- Emmi Itäranta
Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. -- Alan Jacobs
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. -- David Mitchell
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. -- Maria Montessori
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered. -- Jennifer Pahlka
The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods. -- W. H. Auden
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. -- Annie Dillard
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. -- Patricia Wentworth
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. -- Cheryl Strayed
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. -- Georg Brandes
For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered. -- Mirra Komarovsky
Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups. -- George W. Bush
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.' -- David S. Goyer
When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well. -- Peter Eisenman
People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh. -- Rae Foley
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god. -- Nick Davies
The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy. -- Nic Pizzolatto
How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap? -- Reggie McNeal
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in. -- Brigham Young
Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads. -- Guy Cook
I remember when I first encountered anthropocentrism. I was in primary school and, in preparation for our confirmation, the class was learning about the afterlife. -- John Burnside
Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant. -- Laurie Beth Jones
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I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics. -- David Remnick
I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position. -- Stephen Frears
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 -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before. -- Rodney Brooks
I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. -- Tim Blake Nelson
In every sufferings you've encountered, there will be an opportunity to settle things in a right place. If that comes, grab it. Learn to forgive. -- Mahadena Madid
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know. -- Daniel Handler
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -- B. C. Forbes
A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far. -- Ward Churchill
It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated -- Alan Kay
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. -- Joseph Campbell
Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all. -- Catherine Marshall
But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. -- Jesse James Garrett
Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies. -- Caitlin Doughty
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth. -- Joy Harjo
Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing. -- Ann Coulter
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer. -- Candice Millard
Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world. -- Phyllis Curott
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. -- Charles Lindbergh
There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience. -- Edwin Paxton Hood
I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail. -- Steve Jobs
One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life. -- Matthew James Thomas
In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played. -- Joe Greene

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