Quotes About Encounter

I wonder," said Mr. Lorry, pausing in his looking about, "that he keeps that reminder of his sufferings about him!" "And why wonder at that?" was the abrupt inquiry that made him start. It proceeded from Miss Pross, the wild red woman, strong of hand, whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover, and had since improved.

I really think this must be a man!" was Mr. Lorry's breathless reflection, simultaneously with his coming against the wall.)

Well! And hallo you!" said Jerry, more hoarsely than before.

On the stairs I encountered Wemmick, who was coming down, after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door.

When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover!

How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.

This was very like his way of conducting that encounter in the garden; very like. His manner of bearing his poverty, too, exactly corresponded to his manner of bearing that defeat. It seemed to me that he took all blows and buffets now, with just the same air as he had taken mine then. It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I remarked upon turned out to have been sent in on my account from the coffee-house or somewhere else.

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.

But somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Your perfume. . .' His tone held a faint hint of surprise. 'I'd somehow expected you to wear something more. . .sultry. I don't recognize this fragrance.' 'It's new," Courtenay said tersely. 'It's called Get Lost. You've probably never encountered it before.

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

Dirac said nothing to his fellow pedestrians, but Kierkegaard would startle some of them by interrogating them about some subject on his mind, following in the tradition of Socrates, whom he called 'the virtuoso of the casual encounter'.

Shamanism is not confined to specific socio-economic settings or stages of development. It is fundamentally the ability that all of us share, some with and some without the help of hallucinogens, to enter altered states of consciousness and to travel out of body in non-physical realms - there to encounter supernatural entities and gain useful knowledge and healing powers from them.

And yet, it's still more important for people to know God than to know about God, to experience the friendship of Jesus than to know about the theoretical possibility of the friendship of Jesus.

Your best source of new recruits is your own classes: "see one, do one, teach one" has worked well for volunteer organizations for as long as there have been volunteer organizations. Make sure that every class or other encounter ends with two sentences explaining how people can help, and that help is welcome.

John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight...

On la connaît tous... Cette solitude qui nous mine parfois. Qui sabote notre sommeil ou pourrit nos petits matins. C'est la tristesse du premier jour d'école. C'est lorsqu'il embrasse une fille plus belle dans la cour du lycée. C'est Orly ou la gare de l'Est à la fin d'un amour. C'est l'enfant qu'on ne fera jamais ensemble. C'est quelquefois moi. C'est quelquefois vous. Mais il suffit parfois d'une rencontre...

Il suffit d'un instant. Un regard. Une rencontre. Pour bouleverser une existence. La bonne personne, le bon moment. Le caprice complice du hasard.

Postoje rijetki trenuci u životu kada vam se otvore jedna vrata i život vam ponudi susret koji više niste o?ekivali. Susret sa bi?em s kojim se dopunjujete, koje vas prihvata onakvim kakvi ste, koje vas uzima u cijelosti, koje nazire i prihvata vaše kontradikcije, strahove, osje?aje...

Es gibt Menschen, deren Bestimmung es ist, einander zu begegnen. Wo sie auch sind. Wohin sie auch gehen. Eines Tages treffen sie sich. (Claudie Gallay)

Postoje retki trenuci u životu kada se vrata otvaraju i život vam nudi susret koji niste o?ekivali. Susret sa srodnim bi?em, koje vas prihvata onakvim kakvi jeste, u celosti, koje naslu?uje i razume vaše protivre?nosti, vaše strahove, ose?anja, bes, bujicu mra?nih misli koje vam se motaju po glavi. Bi?em koje vas smiruje. Onim koje vam pruža ogledalo, a vi se ne plašite da se pogledate u njemu.

I always try and give the players the security of knowing what they'll encounter. This increases the possibility of doing things well.

Os outros eu conheci por acaso. Você eu encontrei porque era preciso.