Quotes About Encounter

Discoveries' in philosophy are always at the same time inventions...Truth is not ready-made in things, and yet, by a 'retrograde movement,' it presents itself to us as existing prior to our act of knowledge. We encounter reality: that is the cause and effect of the knowledge we have of it. This circle is the definition of history, and it is up to the philosopher to learn to live with it.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

This book has been designed not merely to be read but to be experienced.

marido? —Soy viuda. —Será de un fantasma encarnado, porque los otros días yo vi a Peyo caminando por la Plaza —interrumpió otra de las comadronas que esperaban en la oficina. —Para lo que sirve, mejor darlo por muerto —respondió la comadrona que entrevistaba. Rieron ambas.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

Joseph and I arrived at Edward's

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.

The actual encounter was always confusing, eleven minutes of liminal contact in which I tried to conduct myself in a way that would make the doctor like me, in the hope they would take some true interest in my plight. But their day was full of tests to order, bureaucracy to cut through, an education that taught them not to say, "I don't know what's wrong with you." And so we stood together in a tiny antiseptic room, the doctor and patient, a world apart.

the body is a site of social encounter, not a vessel for American hyperindividualism.

Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see

Strange things happen when we stand face to face with our enemy, don't they, Phaedra of Alonso?

The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. "I came to find you." "I didn't know. If I'd known..." "It doesn't matter now." The girl's attention was unwavering. "This is where you are.

Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

I just met history for a couple of hours, and then our ways parted.

The girl laughed. "I'm Bella," she said.

Precum magne?ii cu aceea?i polaritate, cu cât încerci s?-i apropii, cu atât se dep?rteaz? mai mult. Sau precum atomii care se atrag unul c?tre cel?lalt, dar se resping când încerci s?-i pui unul lâng? altul. Ca dou? persoane prinse în u?ile turnante - oricât de mult dorim s? ne întâlnim, nu e chip s? se întâmple.

I first met Serch at Payday, a really good once-a-week night club started by these guys Patrick Moxey and Beaver, the latter of whom I know now from the rare-wine world. (Did I just write that sentence? You're goddamn right I did.)

The Templars would later encounter Ismaili dualists in the form of the Assassins, who would descend from their Syrian mountain eyrie to commit acts of terror against all sides.

have you ever wondered about how, in the original West Side Story, Tony manages to wander randomly onto a street in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, shout, "Maria!" and only one woman answers him?)

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.

We stood facing each other, but it seemed absurd to shake hands, so we just smiled, like two strangers who had collided by accident.

If you see Ingrid, don't look at her. Walk the other way." I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he's part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.