Meetings Quotes - Page 38

• They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.

  Veronica Roth

  Color, Laughing, Might

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Understanding

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Feet, Want, Chance

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.30, Macmillan

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• really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 11, 2014

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• My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, First Impression, Firsts

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor”, p.103, Macmillan

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• We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Fighting, Together

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• Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

  Alexander Theroux

  Needs, Faculty, Shows

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Light, Twenties, Century

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• Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Important, Chance, Grew

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• [...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

  Marie Lu

  Cheer, Home, June

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• We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his bicep... and chest... and tattoo. Never thought the sun could be so... sexy. Wow. This was awkward. "You running over me, me almost running over you?" Cam elaborated. "It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

  J. Lynn

  Tattoo, Sexy, Running

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• It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Goodbye, Lonely, Believe

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• She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Dream

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

  Cassandra Clare

  Goodbye, Long, Joy

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

  Julie James

  Eye, Office, Bags

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.32, Penguin

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• Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

  Shirley Jackson

  Lying, Wine, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.108, Penguin

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• ...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opinion, Persons

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

  Julian Barnes

  Photography, Love Is, Magic

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• Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Dream, Girlfriend

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• Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

  Susan Cain

  New Year, Running, Home

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

  Marie Lu

  Distance, Feet, Three

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Church Bells, Years

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

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• Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Goal, Important

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