Quotes About Encounter

Talking about lions is not the same as facing them in the forest.

A vida é a arte do encontro, embora haja tanto desencontro pela vida.

Life is the art of encounter, although there is so much mismatch in life.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

She knew that nothing she could imagine could approach the strangeness of the expidition's first contact with non-Terrestrial beings. She could not predict what would happen. It was the sense of immersing herself in strangeness that she sought, knowing she would have to meet the reality with equanimity, and wing it from there.

You can't run away from your problems. They'll always find you.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.

The other was out on the road late at night waiting for her young man, when something came flapping and rolling along the road up to her feet. It had the likeness of a newspaper, and presently it flapped up into her face, and she knew by the size of it that it was the Irish Times. All of a sudden it changed into a young man, who asked her to go walking with him. She would

asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, "Am I not annoyed with them?" I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. "I have seen it," he said, "down there by the water, batting the river with its hands.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them.

Chances don't approach you, it's you who approach chances.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy... easy laugh, nice guy.

The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.