Encounter Quotations | Page 2

Yes, they know there are poor people, but they most likely never had a firsthand encounter with them.

When you encounter unstable soil, you usually get a bulldozer to cut down until you get to solid ground. No matter how far down we got, the soil was still unstable. We had to bring in two or three feet of fill to make the site stable.

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.

Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969.

Stress is like any other illness or injury - it affects different people differently, ... I do know that stress that public safety personnel encounter in the course of their work is something that's very real and it's something that can have a detrimental effect on people.

Officers deal with bad guys on a daily basis and make literally hundreds of arrests. Fortunately, it's rare that an encounter turns into a deadly force situation.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.

Our existing system was based on an ageing infrastructure, and we were starting to encounter a number of performance problems, such as outages and incompatibility.

Ten years ago, there was nowhere in the world a filmmaker wouldn't go. But, this is no longer the case. Filmmakers are becoming more aware of the risks they encounter abroad, and in particular, the risks that impact actors, crew and millions of dollars worth of equipment on loan for production. Furthermore, we are seeing a gap between perception and reality. Most people cite terrorism as the foremost risk facing them in today's global environment; however, our map shows that the risks of disease, poor medical care and crime are more prevalent for filmmakers.

Fishing for browns requires stealth, patience, a lot of hiding behind bushes and limited wading. About the only time you'll see me hiding behind a bush is when I encounter a bear. I'd rather be on the water heading upstream. Doesn't seem to bother the rainbows and it's probably the reason I don't catch a lot of browns.

The results of our research are clear: Most college students encounter sexual harassment on their campus. Many, particularly young women, are embarrassed, angered, scared and disappointed in their college experience as a result. And, as a whole, college students do not have a clear or shared understanding of what to do about sexual harassment.

This institute will be Janus-based - the Roman god with two faces. One face is looking toward curriculum and students, while the other looks outward at commercial development and the media world students will encounter in the next few years.

This is a much larger outbreak than any of us anticipated. Maybe the immunity generated by the mumps vaccine can wane and then you become newly susceptible, particularly if you encounter a large dose of virus.

Indeed, the asteroid's orbit is particularly attractive for spacecraft rendezvous, and the extraordinary close encounter in April 2029 provides a unique opportunity to investigate a number of scientific NEO issues.

In general, we think that nature evolved this function to help us survive DNA damage that would otherwise kill us. It's probably a kind of damage that all cells encounter frequently in life.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a "prone position" on the night of his famous encounter with Los Angeles police, 58 people would be alive today, $16 billion would be circulating in the economy and four dedicated LAPD officers who were working to the book that night would not have been forced to endure two trials (the first had acquitted them) and had their careers destroyed to appease the liberal conscience. But liberals had to make their point.

If there is one confirmed case we would carry out all necessary measures, which means closing all the checkpoints, ... To prevent any possible hazard we would rather slow down our economy a bit, or let the people encounter some inconvenience. We set our citizens' lives as our first priority.

I made it through to the end, but not without my horse dying, cracking a bone in my hand and the odd interesting encounter with the Indian army.

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

Innocent People do not have to lie, hide or be silent, because there is nothing for us to be ashamed about. We leave that for the Guilty People to encounter every day of their life.

If you do encounter that, it would be wise probably to swim elsewhere, ... Just be mindful of your and their environment.

If you have a bad encounter with a principal, you quit, but if you have a bad encounter with a boss, your ass is out the door.

I'm glad the offense is doing what they were doing. In spring you encounter just about every situation you'll face during the regular season. Today it was sitting for a while.

The air quality has been pretty good. The air's fresh all the way up to here. They did encounter some smoke in this area.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

Every now and again you encounter a case that sort of shocks you, in terms of the moral vacuum that exists among those who are perpetrating crimes, and this is clearly one of those.

Everyone has heard of a diamond in the rough. It's rare to encounter those diamonds and know you are in the presence of goodness. He's a quiet individual ... but when things were hard and hectic and we had hurricane overload, he did his best to assist us.

No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

It's my job to invite all of you to come to Wyoming and Yellowstone Park where we hope you get a glimpse of the grizzly. We hope you do not have an encounter with the grizzly.

Every time you encounter a difficulty or a problem in anything you do don't get down about it. It is just the universe asking you "How much do you want it?

Evolution has shaped our visual system to be good at seeing the structures we commonly encounter in nature, and culture has apparently selected our writing systems and visual signs to have these same shapes.

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby.

In the original New York production, which I directed, I had the good fortune to encounter a bluegrass group called the Red Clay Ramblers, out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Their musical sensibilities, musicianship, and great repertoire of traditional and original tunes fit the play like a glove.

By allowing kids the opportunity to encounter situations common to everyday living, such as personal banking or going to the store, JA Enterprise Village brings what they learn in the classroom to life. Students will learn what it takes to run a business and the relationship between business and consumer, valuable experiences that they will use in the real world.

Becoming a parent is like taking a trip to a foreign country: you have no way of knowing beforehand what you'll encounter once you get there.

They want our operation to be completely separate. They don't want our staff to encounter their staff in the hall.

It's always the captain's job to have 10 plans ready at all times, ... We're ready for surprises. It's not really an adventure unless you encounter a few surprises along the way.

In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the need for new hardware, administrator and end-user training, configuration and deployment of the new operating system, compatibility-testing, and possible re-engineering of application software,

Sometimes you encounter a person who firmly believes that listing agents will recommend too low a price just to get a quick sale. But the fact that agents are paid on a percentage commission is one reason they don't like to do that.

The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.

It's made it more difficult for his agenda generally and it certainly has made it more difficult in the Supreme Court nomination battle. As we've seen with other presidents, when presidents encounter serious difficulties, they tend to have to compromise.

As with any new car, there were some minor issues to resolve, but we did not encounter any major problems and gradually began completing some longer runs.

This morning 40,000 of them turned up missing. Reports indicate that the birds have abandoned their wintering grounds in Delaware and that snow geese are showing up in New York. It is unclear whether the birds that stopped here briefly and then left recently still are somewhere at this same latitude or if they have pushed north. It would be somewhat early for large numbers of snows to be north of us but the movements of these birds is hard to predict. As soon as conditions permit they will usually try to push north, but if they encounter much snow or ice they will again retreat southward.

They encounter spiders, cars, parking lots at dawn, hosts that eat them, ... Just flying is a dangerous thing.

We certify the dogs once a year to make sure they are reliable and accurate. The first three weeks consists of training exercises. The dogs search vehicles, buildings and conduct area searches - anything they might encounter while working with a law enforcement agency on the street.

It is paramount to the security of our aviation system that terrorists not be able to know with certainty what screening procedures they will encounter at airports around the nation. By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

It was such a conscious effort. The first thing you encounter when you're older is 'When do I get to be happy?' So we just made a decision that we're going to do this. Let's create an environment that's fun, that's happy.

What it shows is just how much of the picture in our head of our surroundings is a massive construction, based on expectations, what we think is important, what we normally encounter and so on. And that's what magicians are very good at exploiting.

The more we push into the virgin habitat, the more problems we encounter with animals.

It's a very interesting process to write in English because all my literary resources come from Spanish, ... I must confess that I felt really handicapped, creatively, when I accepted the proposal to sing in English. ... I thought that I would encounter more difficulties, but everything has come together.

I am not an advocate of restricting choices of indigenous people, and so I think it inevitable that all indigenous peoples will eventually encounter Western technology and western ways,

GPS is very good for exploring. When you go out, you can be assured you can find your way back. But you must have reliable maps, or you might encounter some trouble Sometimes GPS gives wrong directions, because the map may be obsolete, or the roads have been altered. If the driver does not pay attention, it can lead to disaster.

The mayor has known Bill Clinton for years. The encounter today gave them a chance to catch up.

Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.