Quotes About Encounter

Yes, a meaningful casual encounter can really enrich life. It is one of life's special punctuation marks. One should cherish these liaisons as much as any committed relationship they may counterpoint. If they are set against an austere, solitary canvas, their light shines ever brighter.

Well, it's nice to meet you. My name is Mr. Saint Paul.

Science fiction constantly interrogates the limits of identity and the nature of difference. The latter is frequently described through a quasi-allegorical displacement of the alien on to other countries and planets, following a strategy of encounter whereby readers are encouraged to re-examine their self-conceptions as a result of confrontation with the Other, with beings whose culture is rarely explored in its own right, but rather to highlight the markers of difference.

Every time we encounter a troll, we say, 'Another village is missing its idiot.' If the world is a Global Village, there must be plenty of Global Village idiots on the loose. They're all trolling on social media.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

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Wow. So what was the vampire like?" "Pale. Big. Toothy," the trooper answered.

The man who greeted her on the sidewalk was named Hank Kowalski. He was bald and had the eyes of a man whose favorite joke is just a shrieking child falling down a flight of stairs.

As soon as you get home, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded earlier. He's also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line, and it's wearing that unique expression of "you're the man who killed me last winter" resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.

I was hammered by either a flying body tackle or an unnecessarily aggressive hug.

I walked right into a girl, broadsided her, felled her like a tree. I saw, to my horror, that it was Jennifer Lopez.

What's up. This is Dave, the one you saw in your hallway. He's not a psychotic killer or anything," he lied

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.

One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

si vous voulez bien convenir que la poésie est la rupture (ou plutôt la rencontre au point de rupture) du visible et de l'invisible

The severe and at times almost condemning glance - a glance that seems to pass judgment - with which the homosexual appraises every good-looking young man he may encounter, is in reality a quick but intense meditation on his own loneliness

Presente, huyes: ausente, te encuentro otra vez.

Cet échange d'inconnu à inconnu se révélait infiniment plus riche que l'habituel commerce entre gens qui savaient déjà tout les uns des autres.

And then Luca leans close and whispers something in the coyote's ear. And the man reaches up and takes Luca in his arms, and Luca folds himself around the coyote's neck, and they embrace for a long moment, and then they turn away from each other quickly, and Luca ascends the steps. Lydia watches through the window as El Chacal lifts his pack from one of the lawn chairs, hoists his replenished water supplies, and heads back into the desert.

The woman offered her hand, and I shook it. She had a confident grip. She didn't tell me her name, though, and I couldn't tell if she simply forgot or she didn't want me to know.