Quotes About Encounter

The first time I saw Marcey Parker she was happily firing a submachine gun through a window.

boo-boo on you. It was Miss Daisy! "Well, hello again, third graders!

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul," Bjork said. "One real encounter, even for a few seconds, is far more useful than several hundred observations.

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.

Surprise is an emotion we feel when we encounter the unexpected

A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

The therapy room seemed to be one of the only places left where two people sit in a room together for an uninterrupted fifty minutes. Despite its veil of professionalism, this weekly I-thou ritual is often one of the most human encounters that people experience.

Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

Bérénice ne pouvait s'empêcher d'allier à Paris frémissant, inconnu, mystérieux, ce grand garçon silencieux qui n'avait rien fait pour l'importuner, qui lui avait tout juste passé les plats à table, mais dont elle avait une fois rencontré le regard.

Only when someone becomes vital do we try to give that first encounter the importance it would later have

The great significance of the altar was and always has been that it was the place where God and the worshiper met.

How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know?

And what else did you find?' 'God' he said simple. 'In a diner.' 'What was he eating?' The question was so unexpected Gamache hesitated then laughed. 'Lemon meringue pie.' 'And how do you know He was God?' ... 'I don't,' he admitted. 'He might have been just a fisherman. He was certainly dressed like one. But he looked across the room at me with such tenderness, such love, I was staggered...then he turned back to me with the most radiant smile I'd ever seen. I was filled with joy.

They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache

I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs.

Too Much to Ask It seemed too much to ask of one small virgin that she should stake shame against the will of God. All she had to hold to, later, were those soft, inward flutterings and the remembered surprise of a brief encounter - spirit with flesh. Who would think it more than a dream wish? An implausible, laughable defense. And

It seemed too much to ask of one small virgin that she should stake shame against the will of God. All she had to hold to, later, were those soft, inward flutterings and the remembered surprise of a brief encounter - spirit with flesh. Who would think it more than a dream wish? An implausible, laughable defense. And

Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.