Quotes About Encounter

So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. Short for Davyd, he said pleasantly. The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

Another meeting

I was going past the end of the hall and I saw Mam'zelle banging at Mr Young for all she was worth with the clothes brush,' she panted.

Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time? Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember? No. I was unconscious.

Artemis: Holly, how did you find me? Holly: Oh, I saw a huge explosion and wondered: now, who could that be?

No one's ever really ready for a troll.

I met Jesus,' mumbled Vern, his head coming up. 'He weren't even a good carpenter.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.

Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.

Why do I get the feeling that to say "fancy meeting you here" would hardly be apt? Sharks can smell blood from miles away, I hear.

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Sait-on jamais, nos chemins pourraient se croiser!

He said it was a quintessential Pal moment—being out and about in the universe, and then unexpectedly crossing paths with someone from home base.

He was unprepared—woefully, dismally unprepared—for the god who opened the door instead. Six foot five if he was an inch, blond, with brilliantly white teeth, stormy gray eyes,

Jesus meets a woman at a well and concerns about marriage emerge, just as with Abraham's servant and Rebekah, Jacob and Rachel, Moses and Zipporah.

He wants to see the child, because that child will bring about the consolation that he seeks; he may not want to see the child, because once he has that encounter, he will die.

The swineherds ran off, and on going into the town, they told the whole story about what had happened to the demoniacs. 34 Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Eventually, a Soviet general sat down in the empty seat next to Howley. Rank-conscious, the Russian visibly shuddered when he realized he was sitting next to someone of much lower position. 'I see you're a colonel,' he said through an interpreter. Howley looked up from his plate and grumbled, 'I see you're a general. Here, have some salami.

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be