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Quotes About Encounter

Relations with the Patagonian giants deteriorated when a European scouting party unearthed a cache of Indian weapons.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam.
~ Lawrence Block
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
~ Robert Breault
Hi, I'm Day. Hi, I'm June.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
JOH! Thank God I found you.""I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?
~ Maureen A. Miller, Beyond
I'm going to see you now Papa… you better run...
~ A.J. Vega, Majesty's Offspring
Don't just discover . . . Encounter!
~ J.P. Osterman
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
~ Ryan Sean O'Reilly
I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us
~ Peyton J Glenn
Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.
~ Gerald Massey
Smile… Even when your life is at its worst, you never know when you'll meet the one who takes your breath away!
~ Jessica Biel
I remember so well the day that you came into my life. You asked for my name, you had the most beautiful smile.
~ Gary Valenciano
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
~ A. C. Benson
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Cada encuentro supone tanto una conclusión como un nuevo inicio: la interacción no tiene un "final natural
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Muziek, poëzie, religie - ze ontstaan allemaal in de ontmoeting van de ziel met een aspect van de werkelijkheid waarvoor de rede geen begrippen en geen taal heeft. (p.56)
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know from a later scrap of oral tradition that Europeans were often believed to have hoofs; not having seen shoes before, some Africans along the river thought them part of white anatomy.
~ Adam Hochschild
To quote Bugs Bunny, it's mongoose season, and you're the fucking mongoose.
~ Adrian McKinty
My question was:How did I go from merely seeing the dirty French Santa in a bar to being in his hotel room the next morning? And this presented me with an actual equation. How did one plus one equal old French Santa?
~ Agusten Burroughs
This woman he met was the woman he met and however you try, you cannot unmeet.
~ Aimee Bender
The incident emphasizes once more that beauty is something to be found, rather than passively encountered, that it requires us to pick up on certain details, to identify the whiteness of a cotton dress, the reflection of the sea on the hull of a yacht, or the contrast between the color of a jockey's coat and his face.
~ Alain de Botton
Voiko olla suurempaa iloa kuin törmätä kirjailijaan, jonka teoksesta pitää, ja sitten huomata ettei hän ole kirjoittanut vain yhtä tai kahta kirjaa vaan yli kymmenen?
~ Alan Bennett
confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.
~ Alan Dean Foster
When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.
~ Alan Furst