Quotes About Encounters

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates.

eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

I have never fancied or been attracted to a man on first meeting him.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I've had some strange fan encounters, that's for sure.

I've had a few ghostly encounters.

I've had a few alien encounters.

This is already true now, when you are still occupied, each with the other's presence, in an exclusive fashion. Imagine how it will be in a little while, when ghosts that do not meet will frequent your minds, accompanying the encounters of your bodies tested by habit.

These three stories of awe—the scientific, the cultural, and the personal—converge on an understanding of how we can find awe. Where do we find it? In response to what I will call the eight wonders of life, which include the strength, courage, and kindness of others; collective movement in actions like dance and sports; nature; music; art and visual design; mystical encounters; encountering life and death; and big ideas or epiphanies.

the "small self" effect of awe arises in all eight wonders of life, and not just vast nature. Finding awe in encounters with moral beauty, for example, or music, or when struck by big ideas, quiets the voice of that interfering and nagging neurotic.

It takes supernatural skill to understand the deeper things in God's heart and His plans for the End Times. We will not gain this understanding by natural means. It will take encounters with God. He will send angels to some of His end-time prophets like He did to Daniel. We must set our hearts to seek prophetic understanding, as Daniel did, by fasting and praying for supernatural understanding.

Collisions - defined as serendipitous personal encounters - the lifeblood of any organization, the key driver of creativity, community, and cohesion.

I call time-outs like these "vigilance breaks"—brief pauses before high-stakes encounters to review instructions and guard against error.

I call time-outs like these "vigilance breaks"—brief pauses before high-stakes encounters to review instructions and guard against error. Vigilance breaks have gone a long way in preventing the University of Michigan Medical Center from transmogrifying into the Hospital of Doom during the afternoon trough. Tremper says that in the time since he implemented these breaks, the quality of care has risen, complications have declined, and both doctors and patients are more at ease.

I've never claimed not to have interest in you, Your Grace. As a matter of fact, considering our encounters, I believe it fair to state that I've undoubtedly expressed an interest in you.

There's a theory," said Myrna. "Not sure if it's Buddhist or Taoist or what, that says that there are certain people we meet time and again, in different lifetimes.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.