Quotes About Encounter

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

When Dradin stopped running he found himself on the fringe of the religious quarter, next to an emaciated macadamia salesman who cracked jokes like nuts.

The enormity of this experience combined with the heartbeat and the crescendo of sound from its ceaseless writing to fill me up until I had no room left. This moment, which I might have been waiting for my entire life all unknowing—this moment of an encounter with the most beautiful, the most terrible thing I might ever experience—was beyond me.

Here, I think, lies the misfortune of philosophy: always we encounter on our travels some exceptional freak to which the philosophical rules are found to be non-applicable. Which are right – the freaks or the philosophical principles?

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

Some guy stopped by to see you. -Who was it? -I don't know. -You don't know? Was he cute? Did you fall in love with him?

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

She had stumbled across a ghost, and her touch had conjured the apparition.

I told him of the queen's refusal to see me, and"- he hesitated, his cheeks coloring slightly- "about the beautiful maiden I met in the castle gardens." "You did?" she asked, unsure why she was so taken with the fact that he'd mentioned her. "Yes," Henri smiled shyly. "Oh, brother," she heard Grumpy mumble.

Brant." Brant looked up and found himself facing Kiernan Kane. He frowned. "I thought I was asleep." "You are." "Then this is a dream?" "It is a dream, yet it is not a dream." Brant ground his teeth. "You annoy me even in my sleep, Minstrel.

We used to say he must've met you in the fiction section.

Tiffany, this is Officer After, who arrested you. Officer After, this is Tiffany Hart, who doesn't remember you.

People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you've seen pictures. The first thirty seconds in a person's presence are the most important. If you're having trouble perceiving and projecting, focus on projecting.

Oh we'll know each other for forever' Bix said. 'The days of losing touch are almost gone.' 'What does that mean? ' Drew asks. 'We're going to meet again in a different place,' Bix said. 'Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

I stepped into the secret passageway to find Jameson waiting for me. "Fancy meeting you here, Heiress." "You," I told him, "are the most annoying person on the face of the planet.

Fancy meeting you here, Heiress." "You," I told him, "are the most annoying person on the face of the planet.

If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you.

At the bottom of the hill they came out of the trees to a busy street and Antwan said, We cross here. Ain't no lights here, Antwan said. Just look out for the ones trying to hit you. There's a nice-looking blonde-haired female human lives around here - any time she sees me she tries to run me down.

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass – And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass – ...

We meet no Stranger but Ourself.

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

Don't go giving this encounter any crazy meaning like you did with him the first time around. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.