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Quotes About Encounter

Books are solitudes in which we meet
~ Rebecca Solnit
I ran into Chris Pratt a few months later. He was surrounded by reporters and focused on selling a movie, but he shouted when he saw me: Hey, dude! The Cubs! The Cubs! Our prayer worked!
~ Rich Cohen
don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?
~ Richard Bach
Sizi anlayan, olduÄŸunuz gibi kabul eden Biriyle kar??laÅŸmak için bir ömür boyu beklersiniz. Sonunda o Birisinin ba??ndan beri kendiniz olduÄŸunu anlars?n?z.
~ Richard Bach
I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.
~ Richard Brautigan
Ayn? ÅŸey benim de ba??ma gelmiÅŸti. YaÅŸl?ca bir kad?n? alabal?k nehri ile kar??t?rd???m? hat?rlad?m ve ondan özür diledim. Afedersiniz dedim. Sizin bir alabal?k nehri olduÄŸunuzu sand?m. DeÄŸilim. dedi. Amerika'da Alabal?k Av? kitab?ndan
~ Richard Brautigan
I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. Excuse me, I said, I thought you were trout stream. I'm not, she said.
~ Richard Brautigan
Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.
~ Richard Denney
It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's happy to fill you in on his life's story and wants you to like him - odd to think this man is cruising around with a loaded pistol, making up his mind about which bank he'll soon rob.' - Richard Ford, Canada
~ Richard Ford
Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific, an origin from which work flows.
~ Julia Cameron
The relationship between professional and domestic cook has similarities to a sexual encounter. One party is normally more experienced than the other; and either party should have the right, at any moment, to say, No, I'm not going to do that.
~ Julian Barnes
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
~ Julianna Baggott
imagining the scene when I would confront you who were the symbol of "the others.
~ K?b? Abe
The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.
~ Karen Traviss
of a copperhead. When he
~ Karin Gillespie
but I met him once and he's super
~ Karin Slaughter
In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now
~ Karl Barth
In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us.
~ Karl Barth
In his finitude each individual begins anew. For his maturing he depends upon authority in order to appropriate the content that can be handed on by tradition. As he grows up within authority, the arena in which he everywhere encounters being opens up to him. If he grows up without authority, he will indeed come to possess knowledge, he will master speaking and thinking, but he will remain at the mercy of the empty possibilities of the realm where Nothingness stares him in the face.
~ Karl Jaspers
Liktenis parasti st?v tepat, aiz m?jas st?ra. Izlikdamies par kabatzagli, ieleni vai loterijas bi?ešu p?rdev?ju: t?s ir vi?a tr?s visbiež?k lietot?s inkarn?cijas. Bet vienu gan tas nedara - nedodas m?jas viz?t?s. Ir pašam j?dodas pie vi?a.
~ Karlos Ruis Safon
Dr. Kellet himself wore a three-piece Harris tweed suit strung with a large gold fob watch. He smelled of cloves and pipe tobacco and had a twinkly look about him as if he were going to toast muffins or read a particularly good story to her, but instead he beamed at Ursula and said, So, I hear you tried to kill your maid? (Oh, that's why I'm here, Ursula thought.)
~ Kate Atkinson
I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.
~ Joe Namath
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
~ Roland Joffe