Quotes About Encountered

Oh to be blissfully ignorant, he thought. But in truth there was nothing he hated more in this life. Ignorance was the root of every manmade evil he had ever encountered.

When I first became a policeman, I was often struck by the absurdity of most of the crime I encountered. Gradually what used to seem absurd began to seem quite normal.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

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.

thing. Something else had come aboard, something I'd never encountered. Something evil. Troubles I could handle. This dark, twisted thing was a whole other world, and I was ill-prepared.

Harl whirled round, all his attention ... on Skulker. What is that on your carapace?What? Skulker tried to peer back... A tinny voice issued from somewhere... It took Skulker a moment to recognize it as that of the human male he earlier encountered. It's CTD gecko mine - yield of about five kilotones. Skulker's shriek terminated in a blast that peeled back four square kilometers of jungle canopy and sunk a crater down to the bedrock.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

I have many times encountered spirits but the reason I don't talk about these things in person is because I feel the people might think that I am doing this for publicity of my films and I also feel that it belittles my experiences. Hence, I don't talk about it.

I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed—then

You did, however, have many beliefs stored in your unconscious mind from times when you lived before. These unconscious beliefs would be activated and made conscious as you encountered different experiences in this lifetime. But as a baby, your perception was free of beliefs.

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.

That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.

Polo, a tireless name-dropper, says he first encountered Prester John by reputation, as the lord of the Tatars

they had drawn about them a following of rabble unmatched for variety and sordidness by any they had yet encountered

Knowledge does not change behavior," he said. "We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors.

The stone technology of the Tasmanians, when first encountered by European explorers in A.D. 1642, was simpler than that prevalent in parts of Upper Paleolithic Europe tens of thousands of years earlier.

I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities.

Hath she made her affection known to Benedick? LEONATO No, and swears she never will; that's her torment. CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. 'Shall I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

He seemed quite a cheerful fellow, too. Even puckish, you might say—at least if, like Brice, you had just recently encountered the term and been taken by it, but hadn't yet read enough literature to realize that puckish was by no means the same thing as harmless.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

How many companies have you encountered that articulate a clear ideology at the start of the company, yet cannot articulate a clear idea of what products to make?

The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.