Quotes About Encounter

On occasion, those attending Socrates Café have met the love of their lives.

La desesperada soledad de las paralelas que no se encuentran jamás

For him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

ahead. The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently. All of this might cause problems for our fledgling democracy.

There are] three possible ways to find meaning in life—even up to the last moment, the last breath…1) a deed we do, a work we create; 2) an experience, a human encounter, a love; and 3) when confronted with an unchangeable fate (such as an incurable disease), a change of attitude toward that fate.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside them.

It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.

Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.

In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.

Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.

this spectre encountered the rich man in all his glory; but they did not look at each other, they passed on. This condition of things could thus last for some time. The moment this man perceives that this woman exists, while this woman does not see that this man is there, the catastrophe is inevitable.

It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf

She got out of the bus and walked alone through town, past a man sitting Indian-style on the side of the road, with a goose on his lap. She heard him say, No way Matilda, to the bird as she hurried past the dirty tent that housed the fishing-carter service". The Great Alone

A German walked up to her, his rifle

It's really easy for us to miss each other in this big, big world... People I've met after a long time of looking; my important people.

he's going there at the orders of Muhammad Nahas to meet someone.

meeting the enigmatic PowerStation there tomorrow morning.

But it was Joshua Alexander who began striding toward him.

What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before? -Jacky Faber

Thea! I was looking for you." It was Eric's voice. Warm, eager-everything that Thea wasn't. She turned to see green eyes flecked with dancing gray and an astonishing smile. A smile that drew her in, changing the world. Maybe everything was going to be all right, after all.

It took me a while to get myself untied. Every time I meet you , I seem to end up hog-tied and unconscious

I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. But then the sun came up and reality set in. Well, this is reality. Right here