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Quotes About Encounters

I have many times encountered spirits but the reason I don't talk about these things in person is because I feel the people might think that I am doing this for publicity of my films and I also feel that it belittles my experiences. Hence, I don't talk about it.
~ Vikram Bhatt
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
~ Honore de Balzac
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
~ Matthew Arnold
At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me
~ Nicholas Sparks
What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.
~ Lord Robertson
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There are instincts for all the encounters of life.
~ Victor Hugo
Hay encuentros que nos ligan, y casualidades que nos impulsan por el camino del deber.
~ Victor Hugo
Her mother had once told her that some people you meet are meant to be a part of your world forever, but some are meant only to change the course of your life and then move on.
~ Kristin Harmel
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
~ la bruyere jean de iv
Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three.....and so on. Nesta
~ Cathy Hopkins
Certo oscilla fra contrattempi e incastri senza numero il gioc'a tombola della nostra vita. Non si conosce mai chi si vuole, ma chi si deve o chi capita, secondo che una mano sleale ci rimescoli, accozzi e sparigli, disponendo o cassando a suo grado gli appuntamenti sui canovacci dei suoi millenni.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
Es sind die Begegnungen mit Menschen, die das Leben so trübsinnig machen.
~ Jack London
On a less public stage he meets a few times a month with Canadian technology entrepreneurs. He grants each visitor about an hour in a session that is part speed dating, part talent show. In these encounters, he plays the tough judge, brusquely challenging their technology, strategies, and financing as a way of preparing them for the kinds of predators that once threatened RIM.
~ Jacquie McNish
If circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they would bless & harm all men alike, but the fact that the same circumstances will be alike good & bad to different souls proves that the good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.
~ James Allen
You think...that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are. Why are they—shameful? Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It's like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light.
~ James Baldwin
Every time I met any of my heroes I was disappointed - the exception was Joe Strummer, who was like an uncle to me.
~ Manu Chao
In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.
~ Sudha Murty
At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.
~ John Hagel III
The greatest relationships are often the unexpected ones.
~ Kaitlin Olson
Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!
~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I have met many sacred souls in reading.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
~ Carolina Herrera
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
~ Sam Kean