Quotes About Encounters

Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

We meet the people we're supposed to when the time is just right.

I'll meet some people who'll treat me mean and I'll just pray that I'll never be like them. And then I'll meet some very nice people and I will take a little bit of them and make myself a better person.

Sometimes, she said, it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over.

Hayat yabanc?larla dolu.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

The alien abduction field is a new one, and it deserves a broad and systematic multi-disciplinary inquiry. It is my hope that, if nothing else, this book will encourage at least some of the skeptics who have criticized my methods and hypotheses to immerse themselves in the primary data of this field, namely the experiences of those who have undergone the abduction encounters, and draw their own conclusions about what is taking place here and what it might mean for the human future.

In subsequent abductions, experiencers are shown hybrid offspring and may even be asked to hold or nurture them.

it seems to be intricately connected with the nature of human greed, the roots of our destructiveness, and the future consequences of our collective behavior. For the abductees, the encounters can be profoundly "enlightening" in the fullest sense.

Changes in the perception of time and space in association with the abduction phenomenon are sometimes accompanied by a sense of the existence of, or of moving into, other realities or dimensions. This may be difficult for experiencers to articulate clearly. Here is Karin struggling to express her ontological confusion, the altered perception of space and time during her encounters, and their interdimensional quality:

I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.

My point is, if we are lucky we bounce into someone. But we always bounce away again, at least a little.

There were these times, is what I am saying, where the people I met were interesting. And their stories interwove!

Entre la gente que marcha por la calle van muchas parejas de enamorados. Se besan y acarician sin mirar a los que pasan, y casi sin que los que pasan los miren. Pero, sin embargo, todos tienen cierto aire de furtivo o pasajero encuentro, como si un azar favorable los hubiera reunido y pudiera separarlos en el mismo instante.

I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.