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Quotes About Encounter

back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.
~ Jodi Picoult
I remember reading a novel once that said the native Alaskans who came in contact with the white missionaries thought, at first, they were ghosts. And why shouldn't they have thought that? Like ghosts, white people move effortlessly through through boundaries and borders. Like ghosts, we can be anywhere we want to be.
~ Jodi Picoult
Sabía muy bien cómo bajar la escalera sin hacer ruido. Ya lo había hecho un par de veces con anterioridad, para encontrarse con Matt en el patio de atrás. Una noche él le había enviado un mensaje de móvil: «Quiero verte ahora». Ella había salido a encontrarse con él vestida con un camisón blanco de algodón, como un fantasma, y cuando él la tocó, por un momento le pareció que iba a escurrírsele entre los dedos.
~ Jodi Picoult
We had just herded them up and slaughtered them, the first encounter between mankind and another intelligent species.
~ Joe Haldeman
I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.
~ John Adams
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?
~ John Ashbery
Ex. 19:17–19 NLT)
~ John Bevere
And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the thing was neither a dot nor a speck nor a blob nor a figure, but a person.
~ John Boyne
I've discovered something interesting, she said. If you ever want to avoid somebody, this city's as small as a postage stamp. But if you ever really want to run into somebody, if you really hope and pray, it's as big as an ocean.
~ Unknown
We moved back to the Raffles', then back to Devon (to Horrabridge, where I saw a spider so big I could hear its footsteps).
~ John Cleese
Thus did these two, the man from Wales and the man from Norfolk, enter the silent streets of the town of Glastonbury.
~ John Cowper Powys
I walk down memory lane because I know that I'll run into you there.
~ Unknown
When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.
~ Taylor Swift
I thought you walked into my life but you didn't walk into it, you walked past it.
~ Unknown
After you break up with someone, it's like the whole universe trys its best for you two to run into each other.
~ Unknown
It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.
~ Anonymous
Met by coincidence, conversated by choice, and fell in love by fate.
~ Unknown
Dear diary. Today I met a boy. He stole my heart and wont give it back...
~ Unknown
Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
~ Unknown
'You'll meet someone soon. No one knows what's round the corner.' How many corners, because I feel like I've turned them all. I meet people all the time. It never works out. I don't know why.
~ Unknown
The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.
~ Unknown
They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die.
~ P. Wish, The Doppelgänger
I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.
~ Unknown
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
~ Matsuo Basho