Meetings Quotes - Page 32

• Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

  J. K. Rowling

  Country, Boys, Glasses

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.20, Pottermore

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• She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Sky, Space, Water

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.71

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• It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

  Toni Morrison

  Years, Bird, Would Be

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, Book I, Chapter 5, ("We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"), 1952.

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• A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Morning, Men, Toads

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• Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Eye, Said Life, Luck

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.143, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  Slash

  Views, Voice, Perspective

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Like Being Alone, Skills, People

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• “Hey, Adam,” I said. “I thought you'd want to know that Warren and Darryl made it out of the vampire den alive.” I sucked in my breath. “You didn't actually agree to their meeting on Marsilia's grounds?” He laughed. “No, it just sounded better than saying they made it out of Denny's alive. It might not be romantic, but it's open all night and set in the middle of a brightly lit parking lot with no dark places for skulking parties to ambush from.”

  Patricia Briggs

  Party, Dark, Night

  "Bone Crossed". Book by Patricia Briggs, February 3, 2009.

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• Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.

  Kij Johnson

  Cat, Player, Clouds

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• She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Long Ago, Should Have

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

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• They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

  Jane Austen

  Saying Goodbye, Desire, Lasts

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.151, BookBaby

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• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Book, Ideas

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• In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Forgiveness, God, Jobs

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• We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dog, Lying, I Love Him

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.665, Wordsworth Editions

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• The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, World, Probability

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• Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Enthusiasm For Life, Long

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 20, 2017

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• In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

  Warren Buffett

  Numbers, People, Important

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• You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

  Evelyn Waugh

  Oxford, People, Interesting

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• Remembrance is a form of meeting.

  Khalil Gibran

  Remembrance, Form

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

  Boris Pasternak

  Years, World, Idle

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• The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

  Libba Bray

  Silence, Wish, Desperation

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• Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  March On Washington, Soul, Height

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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