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Quotes About Encounter

Are you Jesus? people ask us silently every day. And the answer liturgical spirituality forms in us if we live it with constancy, with regularity, with fidelity, is surely, yes.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Aztán valahol a végtele kékségben két lélek útjai keresztezik egymást... Å' pedig úgy veszi majd észre egy idegen szemében a saját szíve tükörképét, mint búvár a tenger árnyai közt a gyöngyöt... és akkor tudni fogja, hogy végre az Å' lelke is hazatalált.
~ Joan D. Vinge
You are the first inhabitant I meet In this new country.
~ Joan London
Just when I thought I'd never find you You appear.
~ Joan London
He went on to the outside door, opened it, and stepped back to let me out. Or I thought he was going to let me out. I stepped forward and he stepped sideways, and we bumped into each other again. Suddenly we were standing in the doorway, nose to nose. This time neither of us moved. We stood just there. The moment would have passed if either one of us had reacted normally. Or maybe we did react normally. It was a heck of a kiss.
~ JoAnna Carl
I fell for Levi "Painter" Brooks the first time I saw him, although in all fairness I did have a head injury at the time.
~ Joanna Wylde
Hey, sweet butt," he said. That broke the spell. Sweet butt? What the hell kind of guy called a girl he'd never met something like that?
~ Joanna Wylde
I walked all the way around the zoo, and then came back to a girl with a round face and fluffy hair, who looked like a baby owl. I like owls. I was about to say hello when along came Very Cool Girl, with her beautiful hair swinging. She smiled at me, and so did the baby owl. But oh no…My throat closed up. I simply could not speak. I can't talk to strangers! I swerved off, and pretended I'd been headed for a nearby drinks machine.
~ Ann Halam
Posljednji susret bio nam je taj na obali gdje smo uvijek se sretali. Bio je visok Nevin vodostaj. Od poplave su u gradu strepili. Pri?ao je o ljetu i o tom da je za ženu pjesnikom biti - r?avo.
~ Anna Akhmatova
She enters, and before I can discern her, She stares at me with an attentive eye. "Were you," I ask, "the cause of the Inferno For Dante?" – And she answers: "I.
~ Anna Akhmatova
An audible 'click' sounded as the milkman and I ran by a bush and this was a bush I'd run by lots of times without clicks coming out of it.
~ Anna Burns
He looked younger, kinder, a brighter image of the man she knew. A man life hadn't mistreated or betrayed. Whatever the pain of this union, she loved that she gave him this momentary peace. This encounter lurched from the physical onto a different plane. A plane revealing a new emotional landscape. She felt lightheaded, lost.
~ Anna Campbell
The most terrifying part of this terrifying encounter was that just now, the man she wanted to attract was standing in front of her. And that was completely insupportable.
~ Anna Campbell
Her glance fell on the door to the library. Not even Paul's greatest admirer would call him a bookish man. This was her best bet for avoiding him. She whisked into the room and whirled to close the door, when she glanced up to see Giles a few steps behind her. With a shuddering gasp, she faltered back as he strode forward and shut them inside. Alone. Neither spoke a word as he seized her with ruthless hands and swept her into his arms.
~ Anna Campbell
Ne reizi neesmu sev vaic?jis, vai esmu m?l?jis vi?u vienm?r vai k?das tieši bija manas j?tas pret vi?u. Tas neko neb?tu l?dz?jis. Tom?r man tik?s vi?u sastapt no jauna k?d? vienatnes br?d?. Atz?stos, jo t? ir taisn?ba.
~ Anna Gavalda
Entra pure » disse continuando a sorridere in quel modo, lo sguardo dovunque, meno che dove io ero, e porgendomi la mano sudata. « Scusa se ho la mano sudata. Come stai? ».
~ Anna Maria Ortese
I didn't find you, I tripped over you. If I hadn't, I would have walked right into them.
~ Anne Bishop
In the theater, the attitude of righteous ownership deprives the audience of an encounter with the unfamiliar.
~ Anne Bogart
Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence. Then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches. ... Geryon was going into the Bus Depot one Friday night about three a.m. to get change to call home. Herakles stepped oof the bus from New Mexico and Geryon came fast around the corner of the platform and there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice.
~ Anne Carson
then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches
~ Anne Carson
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. REVELATION 1:17
~ Anne Graham Lotz
The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. EXODUS 33:11
~ Anne Graham Lotz
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.
~ Anne Ursu
Ver a una mujer, y sentir en ese mismo instante que también ella me ha visto, que sus ojos interrogantes han quedado prendados de mí cómo si no tuviéramos más remedio que encontranos en el umbral de lo ignoto, de esa frontera oscura y melancólica de la conciencia...
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach