Quotes About Encounter

I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave, the type a leprechaun might offer a pixie who was floating by on a maple leaf. Well, hi there, I whispered.

It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election.

July 7, 1995 New York Someone stopped Mitch on the street last night and said, "I need another seventy-five cents so I can buy a cheeseburger. How about helping me?" Mitch said, "Get it without the cheese," and continued walking

I checked The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories out of the library. One of the entries in it is titled "The Day I Sat with Jesus on the Sundeck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts.

I generally start the conversation immediately, that way the person wanting a book signed never has to say the things they've stood in line agonizing over, and that they will most likely regret later on. There are exceptions, though. I was in Baton Rouge in late May 2013, when a woman approached, saying, before I had a chance to throw her off balance, "You got me to put my bra back on." I set down my pen. "I beg your pardon?

The you must be there for the I to find itself. Trust in you gives me trust in myself. In the encounter between the you and the I, faith is born. I am so truly I because I have faith in you. Only the I that comes about through faith can have faith.

he would have repeatedly encountered irresistible words such as "freedom," "liberty," "tyranny," and the "rights of man." 19 Well before he read any serious history, he garnered and cherished a vocabulary of liberation.

I was as surprised as a flower that sees for the first time a bee coming towards it

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.

One can't stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one?......When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained....

There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.

I saw Al Pacino on the street once. That made me very nervous.

I didn't know Alan Pardew before football at all.

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

I'm just meeting amazing people. I'll go into a meeting with Ant and Dec and just be like, 'This is my life?'

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

Dans la langue des viveurs, doubler un cap dans Paris, c'est faire un détour, soit pour ne pas passer devant un créancier, soit pour éviter l'endroit où il peut être rencontre. Lucien qui n'allait pas indifféremment par toutes les rues, connaissait la manoeuvre sans en connaître le nom.

Nébel había sido visto ya por ella; pero no importaba. Lidia llegó cuando él estaba de pie. Avanzó a su encuentro, los ojos centelleantes de dicha, y le tendió un gran ramo de violetas, con adorable torpeza.

after I visited him, and I couldn't

They who seek God with all their hearts must, however, some day on their way meet Jesus.1

It is curious how one's cup may be filled up by another and no words are passed to indicate the process that is taking place. . . It was as if, for a moment, I had been brushed by the angel's wing.

I am a very 'unvoracious' reader, and since I can seldom bring myself to read a work twice I think of the many things that I read – too soon! Nothing, not even a (possible) deeper appreciation, for me replaces the bloom on a book, the freshness of the unread. Still what we read and when goes, like the people we meet, by 'fate.' Letter 189 From a letter to Mrs M. Wilson

Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil