I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed.
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
You are so part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. Your breath changes the atmosphere. Your encounters with others alter the fabrics of their lives, and the lives of those who come in contact with them.
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.
. . . the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.