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Quotes About Encounter

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
~ Alain Badiou
A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Leo is looking down. Leo is looking down and his eyes and skin and hair like dark melted chocolate and he's saying to me, "Hello.
~ Johnny Rich
Pero Anthony O'Hare es una criatura distinta. Vuelve a limpiar la ventanilla y ve a Jennifer
~ Jojo Moyes
I samma sekund Benjamin blir varse den nytillkomne hejdar han sig i steget, är för ett ögonblick alldeles stilla, och han vet att det är hit, till detta ögonblick, till detta möte, till denne man, som hela hans rörelse har syftat. Det är hit han hela tiden har gått.
~ Jonas Gardell
The Aztec word for the psilocybin mushroom was teonanacatl, which means literally "god's flesh"; when it was eaten in religious ceremonies, it gave many the experience of a direct encounter with God.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Just another obscenity, human flesh turned to trash. I never got used to it. Each time I encountered it, I craved faith in the immortality of the soul.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
what we just saw between Fellinger
~ Jonathan Kellerman
booth. The other two women face them.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Then this other guy, the thirteenth guy, comes crashing right into me. Even with all that was going on I thought, Drug addict. He was pale and sweaty, stank like raw sewage, and had a glazed bug-eyed stare. Sick bastard even tried to bite me, but
~ Jonathan Maberry
Voyage set, there to be encountered by millions, one of whom was me.
~ Jonathan Rauch
The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!" I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just-
~ Jonathan Stroud
I memorized her automatically. I would appear in her guise tomorrow when I went back to visit that kid. Only naked.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Invece non si tratta di una disgrazia: siamo stati visitati da qualcuno molto grande.
~ Emmanuel Mounier
Domani, a scuola, quando ci vedremo, per favore, corrimi incontro. L'ho sperato tutti questi giorni e non è mai successo...
~ Enrico Brizzi
Y puede, además, que sea verdad que hay focos de espacio y tiempo conectados entre sí, focos entre los que podemos viajar los denominados vivos y los denominados muertos y de ese modo encontrarnos.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
There hardly ever seem to be "encounters" in this great country, in which the one can always avoid the other. But where there is no encounter, where liberty is the only unifying factor, one naturally knows nothing of the community which is created through encounter. The whole life together is completely different as a result. Community in our sense, whether cultural or ecclesiastical, cannot develop there. Is
~ Eric Metaxas
In 1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were
~ Eric von Hippel
Nevertheless, it is true that the first discipline encountered by a young man is the one he must somehow identify with unless he chooses to remain unidentified in his years of need. The discipline he happens to encounter, however, may turn out to be poor ideological fare; poor in view of what, as an individual, he has not yet derived from his childhood problems, and poor in view of the irreversible decisions which begin to crowd in on him.
~ Erik H. Erikson
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.
~ Erik Larson
What is your name?" Goosefeather called after her. The she-cat carried on walking without looking back. "Mapleshade," she mewed.
~ Erin Hunter
He's been bitten," he told Alderheart, adding with a sniff, "by a squirrel.
~ Erin Hunter
As Firestar drew nearer he recognized the cream-and-brown tabby she-cat he had surprised in the scrubland near the Twolegplace.
~ Erin Hunter