Quotes About Encounter

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

You didnt access love, love accessed you!

An empty silence descends upon them. How the hell is this supposed to work, anyway? People meet people every day. They talk, they go out, they kiss, they fuck, they fall in love, they make families, and all because they managed to push past any initial introversion and awkwardness to make contact. He wishes they were drunk.

And maybe when you are going for a walk and your head is spinning a cat will show up and if you pay attention to it then you will get a reminder for just fifteen seconds that the wonder of Being might make up for the ineradicable suffering that accompanies it. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.

La participación en actos cuyo único propósito es la expansión del dolor y el sufrimiento inocentes es algo que destruye el carácter; el encuentro directo con la tragedia, en cambio, puede potenciarlo.

I know someone who was actually chased by a squirrel.)

Everyone is always broadcasting to everyone else their desire to encounter the ideal.

Proper Being is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination. It's the continual transformation of what you know, through encounter with what you don't know, rather than the desperate clinging to the certainty that is eternally insufficient in any case.

Proper Being is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination. It's the continual transformation of what you know, through encounter with what you don't know, rather than the desperate clinging to the certainty that is eternally insufficient in any case. That accounts for the importance of Rule 4 (Compare yourself…). Always place your becoming above your current being.

Although Ryan hardly knew the person whose breath was playing over his cheek any better than he had mere seconds before, the simple exchange of names—or initials—had raised the bar for the encounter from anonymously seedy to merely impulsive. He'd always admired impulsiveness, though he'd never successfully cultivated the tendency in himself. Impulsive people seemed to get what they wanted. And if not, they looked like they had a lot of fun trying.

I was surprised to see Patrick waving vigorously at me from the corner. "Cashing in my rain check!" Huh. I didn't think people actually did that. Maybe "rain check" wasn't actually shorthand for "I prefer not to spend any time with you, ever.

What just cause can be found for the encounter of so many nations, or what hatred inspired them all to take arms against each other? It is proof that the human race lives for its kings, for it is at the mad impulse of one mind a slaughter of nations takes place, and at the whim of a haughty ruler that which nature has taken ages to produce perishes in a moment.

It's a bit embarrassing but we actually met at a strip club. I was one of her favorite dancers.

The person carrying me came to a halt and spoke. 'Take good care of her. I'll see you in two days.' It was the voice of Grimalkin.

There was an unbelievable creature about a foot high looking at me; it then quickly turned and passed into the bathroom. It looked very much like a large lizard walking on its hind legs.

surprised a fox.

Green eyes met green eyes for a long moment; then Fireheart turned and crept warily through the trees. He

I'm saying it's strange when you meet someone. That it's a new planet.

I tried to slip past her again, but she blocked my path and then stomped her foot down in front of me again, pretending like she was Gandalf and I was the balrog.

I stopped moving forward and the sound of hoofbeats also ceased, but not until a few seconds later. I turned around and saw the source of the sound. It wasn't a horse. It was a man banging two coconut halves together.

NASA dubbed this spacecraft the Envoy I, and it reached Europa on the 9th of July, 1976—the day humanity made its first direct contact with an alien intelligence.

In order to penetrate the subject matter there must be, in addition, the love of teaching and the love of learning, the give and take between teacher and student, example and imitation. Beyond the technical problem, there is a personal encounter similar to that of a savage training his sons in the use of bow and arrow, or of an animal guiding its young. I am firmly convinced that one of the high orders of the universe is a pedagogical order.

Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence conservait à notre rencontre le bénéfice d'un événement fortuit. Il était la complicité requise. Celui qui la dévoile la fait disparaître. Je le sais, je n'ai pas le droit de déduire de telles considérations de si faibles indices [...]

Il y a des chances qui tombent dans les bras du premier venu qu'elles rencontrent, des putains de chance qui le laissent tomber aussitôt pour aller avec le suivant, et il y a des chances avisées, au contraire, qui guettent une personne et l'éprouvent lentement.