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Quotes About Encounter

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 encontrarnos en el umbral de lo ignoto, de esa frontera oscura y melancólica de la conciencia...
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Il y avait dans cette coïncidence surprenante, quasi inouïe, le signe d'une rencontre mystérieuse et d'une histoire qu'il fallait vivre.
~ Annie Ernaux
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.
~ Anon
We've all been there, right? When you meet someone personally and then you find yourself working with them professionally, it's awkward.
~ Gregory Smith
I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.
~ Miquita Oliver
I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
A fan proposed to me several times.
~ Divya Dutta
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
~ Heraclitus
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We'll meet you on some corner. I'll be the man smoking two cigarettes.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
How do you do, Captain," she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficulty, as though they had become entangled.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
he was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vous m'avez dit qu'une conductrice imprudente ne risquait rien tant qu'elle ne rencontrait pas de conducteur imprudent. J'en ai rencontré un, vous ne croyez pas? Je veux dire que je me suis mise en danger en faisant une telle erreur de jugement. J'ai cru que vous étiez quelqu'un d'honnête, de loyal. J'ai cru que c'était là votre secret d'orgueil.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Era uno di quei rari sorrisi dotati di un'eterna rassicurazione, uno di quelli in cui t'imbatti quattro o cinque volte al massimo nella vita.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
El misterio de la vida nos duele y nos aterra de muchas formas. Unas veces cae sobre nosotros como un fantasma sin forma, y el alma tiembla con el peor de los miedos, el de la encarnación disforme del no ser. Otras veces está detrás de nosotros, visible sólo cuando no nos damos la vuelta para ver, y es toda la verdad de su terror profundísimo de que nunca la conoceremos.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Kiekvienas iš m?s? yra du, ir kai du žmon?s susitinka, suart?ja, susiriša, retai visas ketvertas sutaria. Svajojantis žmogus, esantis kiekviename veikian?iame žmoguje, dažnokai pešasi su veikian?iu žmogumi - tai kaipgi jie nesipeš su veikian?iu žmogumi ir svajojan?iu žmogumi, esan?iais Kitame?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Outros haverão de ter O que houvermos de perder. Outros poderão achar O que, no nosso encontrar, Foi achado, ou não achado, Segundo o destino dado.
~ Fernando Pessoa
16 [74] [...] Ships that pass in the night and neither acknowledge or recognize one another [...]
~ Fernando Pessoa
When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.
~ Fernando Pessoa
one is as likely to encounter the eccentric as the nondescript, to find people who are but a series of marginal notes in the book of life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ah, l'orrore di morire! E trovare il mistero faccia a faccia senza poter evitarlo, senza potere...
~ Fernando Pessoa