Meetings Quotes - Page 31

• I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Believe, One Direction

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jan 09, 2013

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• There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Chance, Stranger

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.10, Google Publishing

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• There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Suffering, Sorrow

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.146, Applewood Books

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• Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

  James Joyce

  Brother, Men, Wife

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.217, First Avenue Editions

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• I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

  Steven Wright

  Space, Three, Showing Up

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• It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.222, Vintage

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• Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.

  Jane Lindskold

  Perfect, Looks, Done

  Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.132, Macmillan

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• The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sweet, Jail

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Elephants, Circus, Wells

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.190, Penguin

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• She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

  Neil Gaiman

  Passion, Eye, Thinking

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• The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Two, Ducks

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• If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, People, Needs

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• If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Focus, Needs

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• Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Laughter, Eye

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

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• A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Bridges, Metaphor, Possibility

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• His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Dark, Golden Days

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• Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Sleep, New Experiences, Rest Of Life

  "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  P. D. James

  May, Moments, Superficial

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.26, Vintage

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• I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

  Marian Keyes

  Choices, Nails, Different

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

  Frank Herbert

  Ignorance, Brutality, Culture

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

  Regina Doman

  Voice, Fancy, Hello

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• My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Coincidence, Inuyasha, Kagome

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• Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Ice Cream, Giving

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• What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Voice, People

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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