(106 quotes found)
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“If I must die,I will encounter darkness as a bride,And hug it in mine arms.”
William Shakespeare
“Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”
“How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon -- and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.”
W. C. Fields
“The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''”
Gregory Nunn
“[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable-but I didn't know quite what.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“It is in the familiar structure of the Mass itself that a Catholic not only encounters but finds himself received into the very gospel itself, day by day, year after year... the entire liturgy is a seamless gospel fabric, so to speak. It is the gospel, in public, ceremonial, ritual, explicit form.”
Thomas Howard
