Quotes about meet
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“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”

Alan Moore book From Hell

Source: From Hell

Men, Hell

“That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Life, Books, Way, Thinking

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

History, Memory

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“i would say it was nice to meet you, but the fact is it wasnt. in fact, it was quite awkward.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“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 Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Love, Life, Men

“This is Ian. He's no' usually speechless. Or so well dressed."
-Conner
I shouldna wear my best clothes to meet an angel from heaven?"
-Ian
"You look very nice, I love your shirt."
-Marielle
"Thank you"
-Ian
"I have a shirt like that, too."
-Conner”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Vampire Mine

Love, Angels, Clothes

“Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Seduction

Angels

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Girl, Boy, Change

“Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Life

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life, Heart, Happiness

“She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Love, Sea

“Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.”

Ethan Hawke book Ash Wednesday

Source: Ash Wednesday

Heart

“The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 61
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

Life, Art

“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Silence, Past

“This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Personality

“That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Life, Pleasure, Girl

“I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“So," I (Percy) said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?"
Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with
an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Boy, Time

“I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Love, Family, Christmas, Tea

“And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: In Your Dreams

Life, Girl, Boy

“Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God

“If I should meet thee
After long years
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Tear, Silence

“You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Idea

“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

People, Way, Thinking, Sleep

“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”

Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer

Source: What Happened to Lani Garver

Angels

“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Dance, Night

“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?… Wear that dress.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Love, Guy, Feeling

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Pleasure, Books, Thinking

“Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.”

Irvine Welsh book Skagboys

Source: Skagboys

Way, Universe, Time

“I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I’ve been
hard since you left, through two meetings and one
teleconference. You’ve got the advantage, state
your demands.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Feeling

“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”

Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer

"The Cage" (Star Trek first pilot), spoken by John Hoyt as "Dr. Philip Boyce" (0:06:18) <br class="br">Cited in: Dubes 52, Surviving Katrina Before and After https://books.google.nl/books?id=wyySAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22A+man+either+lives+life+as+it+happens+to+him,+meets+it+head-on+and+licks+it,+or+he+turns+his+back+on+it+and+starts+to+wither+away%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsleOa8aHLAhUFIQ8KHdVnClIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22A%20man%20either%20lives%20life%20as%20it%20happens%20to%20him%2C%20meets%20it%20head-on%20and%20licks%20it%2C%20or%20he%20turns%20his%20back%20on%20it%20and%20starts%20to%20wither%20away%22&f=false, 2014, p. 35

Life

“Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Baby

“It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

Source: Twilight

Life, Waiting, Hurt

“You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: The Other Side of the Story

“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 (1955) American actor and author

Time

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Christmas Wedding

People, Books, Stupidity, Reading

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“You really get to meet people on such a personal level. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly
Source: Just Listen

People, Personality

“Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Way, Reality

“It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Sense

“What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Evil

“Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Self-Help

Life, People, World

“If one day, a bhailach… ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

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

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Soul

“Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Source: Mad Love

love, Relationship, Cute, Romantic

“Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle —
Why not I with thine?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Love's Philosophy http://www.readprint.com/work-1365/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), st. 1

World, Law

“No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

World, Soul

“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 book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Goodbye, Life, Joy, Parting

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”

Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Learning, Chance, Parting

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

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

Love, Truth

“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

People, Parting

“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Love, Soul

“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Hope

“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People, Dreams, Time

“Just because you're a gutless harlot doesn't mean I won't find your… attributes attractive. I might be immortal, but I'm still a red-blooded male."

"Harlot? Who talks like that? Father Time, meet the Flinstones.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

Time

“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

People

“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”

Coleman Barks (1937) American poet

World, Soul, Idea, Sense

“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 (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

Truth, Chance

“When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: When Demons Walk

Life

“You just don’t expect to meet dead people.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Invisible Monsters

People, Dead

“once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Love, Hope, Falseness

“Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. - John Tyree”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Variant: In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.
Source: Dear John

“Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

World

“I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.”

Paul Theroux book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Source: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Thinking

“For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Way

“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.”

Laurie Anderson (1947) American musician

“… have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.”

Brad Thor book The Apostle

Source: The Apostle

Smile

“The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

Source: More Poems

Lovers, Light

“he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

People, Stupidity, Learning

“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

Source: Flight Behavior

Love

“You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Tear, Laughter, Personality

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

God

“Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”

Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs

Source: Maisie Dobbs

Memory

“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”

Benjamin Graham book The Intelligent Investor

Source: The Intelligent Investor

“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”

Anna Gavalda (1970) French writer

Source: Someone I Loved

Personality, Happiness

“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

Death, Personality

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.”

Ishmael Beah book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Star, Night

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.”

George Gordon Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Pleasure, Youth, Sleep, Joy

“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

Love

“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Aloha from Hell

Secret, Moms

“Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully.
I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

War, Home

“The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled.
Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.”

Janet Evanovich book Hot Six

Source: Hot Six

Dogs, Grandma

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Love, Reality

“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 book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Kiss

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Time

“I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.

Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto)
Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be one of them. Tabitha Deveraux. Pleased to meet you. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life