Meetings Quotes - Page 36

• Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

  Laini Taylor

  Heart, Butterfly, Drawing

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• That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake. "And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.

  C.C. Hunter

  Falling In Love, Leaving, Stubborn

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.209, St. Martin's Griffin

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• That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Here And There, Different

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• No, hear me out. The long answer to that question is that everything about me has changed since meeting you. What I wanted five months ago is different from what I want today. Did I want a human body? Yes, very much. Is it my top priority now? No." He looked at me with serious eyes."I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know. ~Patch

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Angel, Thinking

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Skeletons, Giving

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

  Mitch Albom

  Careers, Missing, Want

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• Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.

  W. H. Auden

  Memories, Faces, Steps

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.35, DEBOLS!LLO

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• I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Sick, People

  Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”

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• The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

  Stephen Fry

  Sorry, Heaven, Language Development

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• Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

  J.R. Ward

  Missing, Diners, Tables

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.240, Penguin

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• We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Queens, Eye, Airports

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• Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Looks, Fifteen

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.137, Penguin

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• How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Passion, Long, Miracle

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• and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.

  John Burnside

  Autumn, Dark, Squares

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• When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

  Stephen Colbert

  Important, Matter, Excited

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2011

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• Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meaningful, Spiritual, People

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• My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Whole Life, Whole, Has Beens

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• Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?

  Haruki Murakami

  Kids, Two, Scary

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• There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Crazy, Creativity

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

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• There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Night, Two

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• Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

  Eoin Colfer

  Starbucks

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

  Charles Dickens

  Pain, Hands, Years

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

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• I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Worry, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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• I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle. He glared. An entire dialogue seemed to pass between them

  Julie James

  Eyebrows, Jordan, Pleasure

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• Did you accomplish anything in your meeting with Kynan and Arik?” Limos, looking proud of herself, bobbed her head excitedly. “I broke Arik’s ribs.” Reaver exhaled on a deep sigh. “Anything else?

  Larissa Ione

  Ribs, Limos, Proud

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