Quotes About Encounter

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

Hay un verbo inglés, to haunt,, hay un verbo francés, hanter, muy emparentados y más bien intraducibles, que denominan lo que los fantasmas hacen con los lugares y las personas que frecuentan o acechan o revisitan; también, según el conteto, el primero puede signficar encantar, en el sentido feérico de la palabra, en el sentido de encantamiento...

The last time I saw Miguel Desvern or Deverne was also the last time that his wife, Luisa, saw him, which seemed strange, perhaps unfair, given that she was his wife, while I, on the other hand, was a person he had never met, a woman with whom he had never exchanged so much as a single word.

Translating' property is more than an ideology of conquest. It is a clash of cultures, ideologies that demonstrates the difficulty of translation.The colonists benefit from the encounter with the Indians but it is disturbing and daunting.

Ministry with volunteer youth workers is not primarily about volunteers bringing refreshment to students, nor about youth pastors bringing refreshment to volunteers. It is about creating a space wherein people can find refreshment from Christ. It's about creating an upper room—holy ground where disciples can encounter Christ and be washed and refreshed by him.

if you like my poems let them walk in the evening,a little behind you then people will say "Along this road i saw a princess pass on her way to meet her lover (it was toward nightfall) with tall and ignorant servants. — E.E. Cummings, "if you like my poems let them," Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E.E. Cummings . Liveright February 5, 2001) Originally published 1983.

Ultimately, of course, there is no other and you are always meeting yourself.

He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence.

He started to walk across the Common, and on the first bench, under a tree, he saw her sitting. She had a gray silk sunshade over her head—how could he have ever imagined her with a pink one?

Their types were familiar enough to Ralph, who had taken their measure in former wanderings, and come across their duplicates in every scene of continental idleness.

straight into the ambush de Morès

When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that isn't mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce which allows the unsuccessful compeditent to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The Spanish chroniclers in Peru wrote that when the conquistador Pizarro met the Inka ruler Atahualpa, he handed him the Bible, explaining to him that this was the word of God. The Inka brought the volume to his ear, listened carefully die a few moments, then threw the holy book to the ground, exclaiming, "What kind of god is this that does not speak?

After morning yoga a luminous being appeared to me in broad daylight. She walked out of the river, and I saw her

BUSCAR No es un verbo sino un vértigo. No indica acción. No quiere decir ir al encuentro de alguien sino yacer porque alguien no viene.

ese encuentro es El Poema tal como lo sueño y tal como jamás lo escribiré y tal como nadie lo escribió nunca.

Ives Castagnino, el músico de Palermo, se encontró una vez con una dama desconocida que le había enviado cartas durante años. Cuando la vio en la esquina, se acercó y le dijo: -Buenas noches. Soy el desengaño.

If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?