Quotes about Meeting
Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose out the elements of things and place them together and so, giving them a wholeness not theirs in life, make of some scene or meeting of people (all now gone and separate),one of those globed compact things over which thought lingers, and love plays. ~Lily Briscoe
- Virginia Woolf
When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover!
- Charles Dickens
How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.
- Charles Dickens
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
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
- Oscar Wilde
The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
- Cormac McCarthy
Suppose, for example, a brother has a brilliant but unbroken intellect. He may come to the meetings of a local church, but he is untouched. Unless he meets someone whose mind is sharper than his, he will not be helped. He will analyze the thoughts of the preacher and reject them as useless and meaningless. Months and years may pass by, and it is impossible for anything to touch his spirit. His spirit is stonewalled by his intellectual mind.
- Watchman Nee
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
- Michael Douglas
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
- John Updike
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
- Henry Cloud
God wants the church to be a community where real people in real relationships are meeting real needs in real ways. God did not create the church simply as a classroom where you get instruction or as a theater where you come to watch a performance.
- Tony Evans
When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
- Samuel Johnson