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Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!
I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
Reggie [Bush] is the slowest person anyone will ever encounter. I don't understand how he's so fast on the field. He's like a slug!
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.
The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.
When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.
You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives.