#counters

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#encounters #had #held #i #interviews

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#best #bunch #cerebral #close #encounters

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#counters #literature #money #only #science

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#authentic #convincing #dead #death #deathbed

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ↗

— Heraclitus

#danger #does #encounter #encounters #prosperity

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people. ↗

— Bob Keeshan

#consider #encounters #everyday #gentle #good

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#death #each #encounters #individual #joke

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#comes #day #different #each #encounters

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. ↗

— P.D. James

#romance #adam