Quotes About Encounter

Two of its members, Rodrigo de Jerez and the interpreter Luis de Torres, had even gone so far as to try the custom for themselves, thus becoming the first Europeans to smoke tobacco.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.

the club coincided.

He moved toward her like a pilgrim on holy ground.

Because it was at Corcoran—on the Level II yard—that I immediately ran across some guys I'd known in

first pious man, who said: 'Did you encounter my disciples and help them?' Khidr answered:

A millipede ran into a centipede on the street. The millipede said in surprise, "Wow, what are the odds of this?!" "Oh," answered the centipede, "about 10 to 1.

Gorman sensed it was looking for him but could not find him. After several minutes of quartering the area, the object flew toward the ridge and Gorman climbed out from his hiding place and began shouting and taunting the object. Gorman said it blinked several times on and off and then flew away.

the object again lifted off the ground and glided smoothly away in total silence. Again they tried to gain ground, but each time the object repeated the frustrating maneuver. It was clearly watching and reacting to them, trying to keep them at arm's length. Beneath his nervousness, Tom felt a spark of outrage. Who the hell do they think they are? he thought angrily.

Keel writes in Operation Trojan Horse, "the phenomenon had zeroed in on me, just as it had done with the British newspaper editor Arthur Shuttle-wood, and so many others.

He says a response came in the form of a clear, loud voice, in what he described as stereophonic sound, that told him, "Dr. Jim, we accept." The telepathic truce didn't last, however. Family members witnessed humanoid figures clothed in tight-fitting suits on the property. On one night, Jim awoke to find a nearly seven-foot-tall being in a space suit, complete with cosmonaut helmet, standing beside his bed. The being vanished before his eyes.

Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table

You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you," Temujin reminded him softly.

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.

Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabíamos que andábamos para encontrarnos

When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.

Hey, there was this Indian woman hitchhiking back to the Rez in the middle of the night and this white woman picks her up. The Indian woman says, 'Hey, thanks for picking me up. What are you doing out on the road this late?' The white woman points to a bottle in a brown paper bag sitting on the seat between them and says, 'I got this bottle of wine for my husband.' The Indian woman nodded, 'Good trade.'" Lolo

As we started to turn and walk out, the big and easy Samoan reached over and touched Henry's shoulder, the arm attached having powered the biker's head into the drywall of the Rapid City Regional Hospital. "I know you?" The Bear smiled the one-crease-at-the-corner-of-his-mouth smile. "Momentarily.

At about four and with sore feet I spotted an old rusty sign for a "minshuku" — a small family-run homestay.

I'm excited but afraid. I long to turn and wedge myself through the horse's arse from which I've just fallen, to sit safe in the hot womb of my room. But this is Jasper Jones, and he and come to me .

Rain brings us together in one of the last untamed encounters with nature that we experience routinely, able to turn the suburbs and even the city wild. Huddled with our fellow humans under construction scaffolding to escape a deluge, we are bound in the memory and mystery of exhilarating, confounding, life-giving rain.

A snake came to my water troughOn a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat,To drink there.

Thunder and lightning!" cried the huge man when he came within speaking distance of the little minister — "thunder and lightning! if it isn't Mr Maclaren himself! Not a day older — man, you're a wonder!