Quotes About Encounter

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

The first man I've met since going to sea who doesn't bore me stiff.

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[149] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." 29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

and said, almost without thinking, "Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make him visible." I have often thought of that line from Joanna, which would make a fine mission statement for all of us seeking to know and follow God. God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielmo ("A star shines on the hour of our meeting").

Barthes me lisait, donc on s'est rencontrés.

Above me on the landing stood a strange girl, about my age, with short black hair. She was smiling down at me, not a warm smile, not a friendly smile, but the coldest, most frightening smile I had ever seen.

Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. "Hey, Dark Princess? Here's your crap. Also, bite me.

Myrnin: Have we been introduced? Frank: Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart? Myrnin: You're not my type, darling.

What you know about Vampires could fit into a mosquito's ass. Eve said. Irritated. All you know is what you grew up seeing on T.V. You ever actually meet one?

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

The encounter unfolded as though the deer moved in different universes from ours, as if we were briefly visible to each other through some window between our realities. Having no substance in each other's realm, the SUV slid through the herd, and the frightened herd bounded past the SUV, and we didn't collide with any of them, although we must have missed more than one by a fraction of an inch.

WHEN A FIERCE-LOOKING GUY COMES OUT of a mirror as though it's a doorway, and when he grabs for you and snags your shirt with his fingertips, you could be excused for wetting your pants or for losing total control of your sphincter, so

When they return to the Range Rover, a man looms beside it, shadowless in the hard, plumb light

The stranger has gone to the back of the vehicle. "He's trying the liftgate," Libby says.

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

On a few occasions, he has even approached her

the sudden arrival of two-legged visitors.

She steps into the hallway and rushes after the woman.

encounter on Aguereberry Point, Oxenwald is on the move again after less than an hour.

The only thing he'd needed to scare away with a long blast of the horn had been raccoons that approached him hissing and baring their teeth.