
“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
The Moon, Act IV, l. 451
Variant: Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Source: Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?”
Source: The Lost Colony
“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Source: A Rogue's Proposal
“Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.”
Source: Erak's Ransom
"The Green Door" http://books.google.com/books?id=dKk_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+true+adventurer+goes+forth+aimless+and+uncalculating+to+meet+and+greet+unknown+fate+A+fine+example+was+the+Prodigal+Son+when+he+started+back+home%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage
The Four Million (1906)
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
“The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”
From The More Boys I Meet from the album, Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
“Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock….”
Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
March 1937
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Source: Reviewing Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution (1989) by Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
Source: Last sentence expanded upon in "Ignorance is No Crime" (2001) (see below)
Context: So to the book's provocation, the statement that nearly half the people in the United States don't believe in evolution. Not just any people but powerful people, people who should know better, people with too much influence over educational policy. We are not talking about Darwin's particular theory of natural selection. It is still (just) possible for a biologist to doubt its importance, and a few claim to. No, we are here talking about the fact of evolution itself, a fact that is proved utterly beyond reasonable doubt. To claim equal time for creation science in biology classes is about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory. It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
If that gives you offence, I'm sorry. You are probably not stupid, insane or wicked; and ignorance is no crime in a country with strong local traditions of interference in the freedom of biology educators to teach the central theorem of their subject.
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Ballet in the air…
Twin butterflies until, twice white
They Meet, they mate”
Source: Japanese Haiku
“Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
Source: The Complete Essays
“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”
“A bridge is a meeting place… a possibility, a metaphor.”
Source: The Passion (1987)
Context: We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night? (p.57)
Kennedy's "focus on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution of human institutions." was quoted by Barack Obama in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
1963, American University speech
Context: I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal. Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace — based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions — on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There is no single, simple key to this peace — no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process — a way of solving problems.
Source: Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment and Ritual
Source: The Naming
Source: JPod (2006)
Context: Here’s my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic — they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.
Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. IV, Ch. 8 (1839).
Source: This is Where I Leave You
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
Source: The Candymakers
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”
Source: Samsa in Love
“Gin a body meet a body
Coming thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body—
Need a body cry?”
Source: The Invitation
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition