#counter

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. ↗

— Richard Gere

#dharma #early #early 20s #encounter #first

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#counterparts #elected #elected officials #fed #fed up

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#human #human love #love #love is #often

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. ↗

— Evo Morales

#change things #encountering #i #i see #impossible

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#between #consider #decisive #encounter #faith

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#facts #go #human #human nature #nature

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#being #city #encountered #end #ever

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#certain #come #encounter #level #music

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion