Quotes About Encounters

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

Life is a series of random collisions.

In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.

They say you should never meet your heroes. Killing them only makes things more awkward.

As my wife's mother told her growing up, "If you go to the right places, chances are you will meet the right people.

I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

I think sometimes in the focus on deep friendships and on romantic relationships, we can lose sight of how important the small connections we make are with strangers and with people that we may encounter for just a few seconds or a few minutes, whether it's the barista at our coffee shop or the stranger next to us on the subway.

I'm obviously aware that Germany's head-to-head record with Italy is not particularly positive. I myself have memories from a few previous encounters. I was 11 years old for the 2006 disappointment and the 2012 match is obviously much fresher in my memory.

One of the things I love about this job is meeting different people.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

I have interviewed face-to-face, sitting beside me, over 19,000 people.

I love meeting people, I love seeing faces.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

A Stanford graduate student told me that his wife and kids resisted going to church on Sundays because they dreaded encounters with a family of braggarts and bullies so much. Then his family switched to an earlier service that the despised family never attended: the student's wife and kids not only stopped resisting and complaining about going to church; everyone came back from church in far better moods. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

We piled into the back of his big red Sun-Times truck: Robertson, McHugh, a bagpipe player, assorted other regulars, and Good Sydney Harris. Good Sydney Harris was a Spanish Civil War veteran, not to be confused with the Bad Sydney Harris, the Daily News columnist. Good Sydney had fallen into conversation with a dominatrix named Jake, who joined us.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

Si incontreranno per tre volte, ma ogni volta sarà l'unica, e la prima, e l'ultima.

Il destino dà appuntamenti strani.

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, wrote, "Every morning when I leave my house, I say to myself, 'Today I shall meet an impudent man, an ungrateful one, one who talks too much. Therefore do not be surprised.

Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.