Quotes About Encounters

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.

They say if you stand on the Champs Élysées, sooner or later you will meet everyone you've ever known.

encounters between police and young black and Asian men are not solely defined by racialization; they become contests of masculinity. Racialization is interwoven with other forms of identity, as we shall see in the discussion of 'intersectionality'.

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

Of great importance to my outlook on life is the opportunuty I get to meet people on various appearances. I suppose I could devote every weekend to appearances and i do try to make as many as I can.

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

names of places we've been together, names of people we'd be together.

all of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.

Man reiser litt omkring, man flakker fra sted til sted og man har den skjebne å støte på mennesker igjen som man engang før har sett, møte dem plutselig, på uventede steder, så man av overraskelse ganske glemmer å ta hatten av og hilse.Dette treffer meg ofte, ja meget ofte. Det er det intet å gjøre ved (Dronningen av Saba)

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

we are solitary travelers, having crossed paths in the land of stories.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Opportunity is walking through your life every day in the form of people you meet.

By the time I get home, I will have grimaced through 26 sets of traffic lights and acquired the following: a hefty wood-carving of a horse; a censored girlie calendar; an inflatable Power Ranger; a chess set; nine boiled sweets; two slices of salted pineapple; a fake Rolex; three kretek cigarettes and a blowpipe.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.