#counter

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#defeats #encounter #many #may #must

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#alerts #allows #around #better #brings

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#been #cancer #encountered #i #never

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ↗

— Luis Palau

#christ #encounter #enough #forever #instantly

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#better #counter #few #films #idiotic

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#bring #demand #during #encountered #enterprises

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. ↗

— John Tyndall

#brightest #counterparts #fact #flashes #incomplete

As for me, said the little marquise, I am too used to being a girl, and I want to remain one all my life. How could I bring myself to wear a man's hat? And I, said the marquis, have used a sword more than once without disgracing myself. I'll tell you about my adventures some day. Let's continue as we are, then. Beautiful marquise, enjoy all the pleasures of your sex, and I shall enjoy all the pleasures of mine. ↗

— François-Timoleon De Choisy

#beauty

For me, the dying part wasn’t so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn’t through living. ↗

— Suzannah Daniels

#daniels #death #ghostly-encounter #inspirational #suzannah