Quotes about meet
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“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

Drew Carey (1958) American actor, comedian, game show host, libertarian and photographer

Hate, Support

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Life, Fate, Chance

“I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.”

Henry James Roderick Hudson

Source: Roderick Hudson

People

“I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love

“A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Life, Time

“We meet the people we’re supposed to when the time is just right.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

People, Time

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.”

Jonathan Winters (1925–2013) American comedian, actor, and artist

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Time

“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

Source: Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

God

“… there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American author and social activist

Life, Way, Indifference

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love, Time

“Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Money

“Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Love, Books, Guy

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

For Team, Back To Work

“Sometimes you meet a girl and it's like matter and antimatter. You just hate each other for no damn reason.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

Hate, Girl

“Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Kiss

“He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Lives of Christopher Chant

Source: The Lives of Christopher Chant

Parent

“Well, I guess I'll see you around. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."
"That's too bad,"said Jace, "since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."
“That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

“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 (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

World, Dreams

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

People, Personality

“Lara Jean, I think you half-fall in love with every person you meet. It’s part of your charm. You’re in love with love.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Love, Thinking, Parting, Personality

“Here's to our wives and girlfriends… may they never meet!”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

citation needed
Variation on an old Royal Navy wardroom toast: "Wives and Sweethearts! May they never meet!"[citation needed]

Funny

“Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

Life

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”

Brad Meltzer (1970) writer

Fight

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Greatness <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

Secret, Learning

“It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Boy, Thinking

“More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books, Guy, Girl, Drink

“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Love, Sense, Universe

“Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Love, World

“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Heart

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

Problem

“I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.”

Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer

Source: Tap & Gown

Way, Change, Past, Heart

“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Death, Time

“We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

Love, People, Dogs

“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

God, People, Pleasure, World

“I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Indifference

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Recalling "what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils" April 30, 1773, p. 217
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

Thinking, Reading

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Love, Fish, Time, Dead

“As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

People, World, Thinking, Parting

“How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Hope, Sea, Despair

“Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?”

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)

Dance

“Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know.
Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Light, Time

“Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Women, Men

“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Parting

“I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

Love, Learning

“Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragonsong

Source: Dragonsong

Sadness

“When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”

Henry James book The Wings of the Dove

Source: The Wings of the Dove

Women, Books, Reading

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

People, Hell, Change

“We need to be together."
"Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you."
I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him.
I let go”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Sadness, Smile, Dead

“Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“P. S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: The Black Book of Buried Secrets

Time

“Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

People, Exercises

“But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”

Krishna Dharma (1955) British Hindu scholar and author

Life, World, Fear

“Me, I’m late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.
Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.
Peace from Manhattan,
Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Peace, Hope

“The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”

Monica Drake (1967) American writer

Source: Clown Girl

Feeling, Soul, Heart

“When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Drawing

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Life, Pain, People

“Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”

Twyla Tharp (1941) American choreographer

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

People, Books, Reading, Dependency

“We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

Love, Summer

“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Smile, Feeling

“Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

People, Beauty, Sea

“Until meeting you, I wasn’t looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I’m kind of looking for a girlfriend.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Harvest Moon

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

Life, Understanding, Dead

“A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.”

Dan Gutman (1954) American children's writer

Source: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!

People, World, Evil

“Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss”

Diablo Cody book Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Source: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Idea

“When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

People

“We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”

George Gordon Byron book Hebrew Melodies

She Walks in Beauty http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-SWB42.htm, st. 1. The subject of these lines was Mrs. R. Wilmot.—Berry Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 7. <br class="br">Hebrew Melodies (1815)

Beauty, Light, Night

“It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Books, Dreams

“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Men

“Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Travel, Training

“If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God, People

“Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Life, Change

“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else…”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"Let's Not Climb the Washington Monument Tonight"
Versus (1949)

People, Age, Personality

“Meeting someone you like and dating him is supposed to make you feel better, not worse.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Feeling

“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sex, Guy

“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Time, Past, Future, Weather

“We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Give Us the Ballot (1957)
Context: We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. There is still a voice crying out through the vista of time, saying: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." Then, and only then, can you matriculate into the university of eternal life. That same voice cries out in terms lifted to cosmic proportions: "He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword." And history is replete with the bleached bones of nations that failed to follow this command. We must follow nonviolence and love.

Love, Hate, Soul