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Quotes About Meeting

Once I heard Karunakaran was part of 'Lingaa,' I told him to somehow arrange for me to meet Thalaivar. The 'Jigarthanda' team met him when he was shooting in Shimoga. It was a memorable meeting, as he opened the door for us, sat, and answered whatever we asked him. And, I got to meet him twice in two days!
~ Karthik Subbaraj
Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.
~ Oscar Wilde
JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON. We have. JACK. I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON. The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course. JACK. What fools!
~ Oscar Wilde
I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
~ Oscar Wilde
Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then—but I don't know how to explain it to you. Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life. I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows
~ Oscar Wilde
When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.
~ Oswald Spengler
Didn't Frankenstein get married? Did he? said Eggy. I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We all shook hands, and the policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner and began to contemplate the infinite.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A ripe suggestion, I said. Where are you meeting her? At the Ritz? Near the Ritz. He was geographically accurate. About fifty yards east of the Ritz there is one of those blighted tea-and-bun shops you see dotted about all over London and into this, if you'll believe me, young Bingo dived like a homing rabbit; and before I had time to say a word we were wedged in at a table, on the brink of a silent pool of coffee left there by an early luncher.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It seems incredible that we haven't met before. If you ask most people, they will tell you the difficult thing is to avoid meeting me.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I remember, back in England, the man I had before Jeeves sneaked off to a meeting on his evening out and come back and denounced me in front of a crowd of chappies I was giving a bit of supper to as a useless blot on the fabric of Society.
~ P.G.Wodehouse
Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there
~ Paolo Coelho
India's unwritten law for the truth seeker is patience; a master may purposely make a test of one's eagerness to meet him.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The board members came in singly and in pairs. They were mostly a lot of calories under gray suits, a lot of talk behind bright ties
~ Pat Conroy
going to talk to her attorney." Angel
~ Patricia H. Rushford
It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-
~ Patricia Highsmith
and wished with all her power to wish anything, that the woman would simply continue her last words and say, "Are you really so glad to have met me? Then why can't we see each other again? Why can't we even have lunch together today?" Her voice was so casual, and she might have said it so easily.
~ Patricia Highsmith
In twenty-five years," he asserted, "I have never attended a meeting where there were more people listening than talking.
~ Dale Carnegie
As respostas surgiram depressa: lealdade, honestidade, iniciativa, otimismo, trabalho em equipe, entusiasmo durante as oito horas de trabalho. A reunião terminou com um sentimento de coragem e inspiração
~ Dale Carnegie
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they always meet under the presence of Christ. That's the way we escape the dreadful habit that human beings have of sizing one another up. Does that identify anything that you are familiar with? It's one of the most dreadful things in human life, and only the love of Christ and the presence of the kingdom can bring us beyond it.
~ Dallas Willard
you met this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
~ Dan Simmons
Look," said Lamia, "what good would telling each other stories do? When we meet the Shrike, we tell it what we want, one of us is granted the wish, and the others die. Correct?
~ Dan Simmons
She doesn't know how to talk about herself. She is very, very good at telling other people's stories. She is known, as a producer, to be an unusually good reader of scripts when it comes to character and motivation. She has an excellent sense of structure. But her cheeks redden and she stumbles when she tries to share in meetings. It's as if the whole of her life rushes in, and she doesn't know where to begin.
~ Dani Shapiro