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Quotes About Encounter

Still, if that's the way she feels about it there's not much use you going home now and saying "Look mum, I got a bloke coming in tomorrow to see about the ghost", is there?
~ Penelope Lively
Christ changed every human being he ever met. In fact, He changed history, splitting it open like a coconut and inserting eternity into the split between B.C. and A.D. If anyone claims to have met Him without being changed, he has not met Him at all. When you touch Him, you touch lightning. Socrates is puzzled because he is looking for the burn marks.
~ Peter Kreeft
On the morning I was scheduled to die, a large barefoot man with a bushy red beard waddled past my house.
~ Peter Lerangis
closer, she spotted the brown wolf's
~ Peter Lerangis
When he saw her, my brother stopped in his tracks and fell into her eyes so deeply you could hear the splash.
~ Peter Robinson
he'd come up from Bradford to see the band. I didn't know him, but he was
~ Peter Robinson
I've never found a live, wild animal. It must be a fantastic experience to look down and see something living scuttling along. Maybe it'll happen someday to me like it did him.
~ Philip K. Dick
Strano come un delirio persecutorio riesca di tanto in tanto a incontrare, per quanto brevemente, la realtà.
~ Philip K. Dick
Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing.
~ Philip K. Dick
Hi, Officer," R. C. greeted him
~ Philip K. Dick
Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.
~ Philip Kerr
The magician arrived. He was called Johannes Agrippa, and he looked at us, at me and Dinessa, and went to my father's study to talk in private.
~ Philip Pullman
Il m'arrivait aussi, à l'occasion, d'être accosté dans les rues de New York par des inconnus qui se lançaient dans une rencontre orageuse avec moi à cause de quelque chose dans mes romans qui les séduisait ou qui les exaspérait, ou qui les séduisait parce que cela les exaspérait, ou qui les exaspérait parce que cela les séduisait.
~ Philip Roth
Are you the Deathwalker?' called the man. 'Yes.' 'You are old and fat. It pleases me.' 'Good! Remember that when next we meet, for I have marked you, Loudmouth, and my axe knows the name of your spirit. Now, what is your message?
~ David Gemmell
Getting beyond the sanitized Thanksgiving myth to tell a more accurate history of that encounter involves reckoning with a point made by many Wampanoags today: that their storied welcome to the English was a terrible mistake, born out of the horror of a disease without a name.
~ Unknown
Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.
~ David Levithan
But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.
~ David Levithan
What if Katie Couric had turned to me and said, "The love of your life is here in this crowd"? Would I have believed her? Would it have even been possible, if we'd met then?
~ David Levithan
We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.
~ David Levithan
This is weird. I knew it would be weird, and it is weird, and I'm telling myself that of course it's weird, but soon it will go back to being something less weird. I know I spent tonight with a girl I'd never met before. But despite that, I still felt like I knew her instantly. Because A was A. It may have been a different body, a different voice, a different size and height. But when she looked at me, it was A. When she talked to me, it was A. How I felt--it was A.
~ David Levithan
Quando te vi hoje, não sabia que estava te esperando até você aparecer. E então toda aquela espera tomou conta de mim em um segundo.
~ David Levithan
A voice floats out to him. Her voice. --- Who's there? --- The man you're not afraid of.
~ David Maine
Zola nunca se encontró con Dreyfus.
~ David Markson
northern France and Rhineland Germany that may or may not have reflected an actual encounter. In any event, it was in this part of Europe that, according to most scholars, Ashkenazic Jewry originated. It is somewhat mysterious
~ David N. Myers