Quotes About Encounter

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.

Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.

Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.

You meet the one you meet amongst thousands and tens of thousands of people, amidst thousands and tens of thousands of years, in the boundless wilderness of time, not a step sooner, not a step later. You chance upon each other, not saying much, only asking softly, "Oh, you are here, also?

I wonder how Mr. Brinks would react if I told him my doctor was the surftastic cameraman he fist-bumped earlier in the week.

T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

This, I think, is one of the most effective and rewarding forms of education. The interest is there, lurking somewhere in another person. You have only to seek for it. It will make every encounter a challenge and it will keep alive one of the most valuable qualities a person has—curiosity.

La prima volta che ho visto Enzo è stato a una festa da ballo e abbiamo ballato questo ballo qui" la sentii dire. "Quanto tempo fa?" "Questo 23 maggio diciassette anni." ââ'¬Å"È passato molto tempo." "Non è passato nemmeno un minuto.

I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

Qué triste destino el mío encontrarte en mi camino cuando los años blanquean mis barbas de peregrino!

Una noche la soñé y tal como la soñé amaneció frente a mi puerta.

When man is not permitted to be himself, he cannot be encountered.

Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.

Every encounter with human truth—Jane Austen deftly showing how little we know our own motives; Dickens revealing the meaning of "economy" in the cheerful and charitable housekeeping of Esther Summerson, his finest heroine; or Shakespeare offering us the foolish Lear, mad and childish and yet "every inch a king"—can expand the soul; it helps to set us free from the common delusions of our time, the lies we believe and the lies we tell. But

La primera cosa que pensé sobre tu padre fue que me notó. Incluso con toda esa gente y ese humo, e incluso aunque nadie nunca me nota.. él se acerco a mí...

Me encontré con la Luna, que era una mujer gorda y desnuda, sentada en el horizonte.

El alma no se ve en la cara ni en los ojos, porque cada cual esta recluido muy en el fondo de si mismo cuando se encuentra frente a desconocidos

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine",