Quotes About Encounter

one individual they did not want to encounter at that moment.

fifty leagues past the cape, they explored a large bay and came upon a caravan of men and camels.

Magellan could seize any Arabs he found in the Portuguese hemisphere

Magellan came across Arabs in the Spanish hemisphere, he was to treat them well

the authorities in that distant outpost of the Spanish empire found a Portuguese caravel that had wandered into the Caribbean.

sailed along its coast, and spotted a tribe that seemed friendly, at least from a distance. In good spirits

went ashore with a landing party of seven men to greet them.

And Magellan came well armed for what would be the most important meeting of his life.

Everywhere Magellan looked, there seemed to be an idol mocking him; they were even arrayed along the shore, and their appearance was disturbing to European sensibilities

Fearful of stumbling across warlike tribes that might be prowling in the forest

Three hundred years later, Charles Darwin encountered a canoe bearing tribal members

the Indians whom Magellan and his crew would encounter in Rio de Janeiro:

In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.

The journey to marifat (becoming the mirror of Allah) may be long or it may occur at your next breath, but in the meanwhile, we must encounter duality. Duality is as 'Divine' as non-duality. The light and the dark must be regarded as sacred, so we do not fall into faulting Allah for the thorns on the rosebush.

Searching for a spark of familiarity in the faces of strangers

Afailure is the misbehavior of the program, resulting from the program encountering a fault. Failures occur

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats…. I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland.They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.

Russell turned his head and said to me, "Say hello to Jimmy Hoffa." Then Russ handed me the phone. I reached for the phone and I thought, can you imagine this? Jimmy Hoffa calling to talk to me? "Hello," I said. "Glad to meet you." Jimmy Hoffa didn't even say hello. He got right to the point. The next thing I heard were the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to me. "I heard you paint houses," Jimmy said.

Then one day this guy, Whispers DiTullio, came over to my table at the Bocce Club and bought me a glass of wine.

By coincidence I ran into my kid brother, Tom, on the dock in Le Havre, France, in October 1945.

Voltaire, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes never had a chance to speak with these men or even know of their existence—and here, at last, we begin to appreciate the enormity of the calamity, for the distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.

On Columbus's later voyages, his crew happily accepted godhood—until the Taino began empirically testing their divinity by forcing their heads underwater for long periods to see if the Spanish were, as gods should be, immortal.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!