Quotes About Meeting Someone

#1. We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Emil Cioran

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

James Patterson

#3. There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

Lenora Crichlow

#4. That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

Katie Aselton

#5. I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Jude Law

#6. The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'

Katy B

#7. It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.

Marcus Sakey

#8. In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing? In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can't look is that place he must: within.

Steven Pressfield

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

Greg Behrendt

#10. I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

Richard Madden

#11. You know how before a party you clean up your house so that everyone thinks you live that way all the time? That's meeting someone at an awards show.

Lauren Graham

#12. I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

John Cusack

#13. Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. There's a period of uncertainty that comes into play upon meeting someone who interests you. It must be inherent in attraction, for I've never met anybody who hasn't experienced it, it's just a question of to what degree they're going to admit it.

Claire Fullerton

#15. We meet different kinds of people in life, Good people gives us happiness whereas worse gives us lesson.So never regret on meeting someone.As it's an experience of life. Taste every flavor of life.

Debolina

#16. Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Helen Fisher

#17. Summers are the best. And I figured summer was my best time for meeting someone, too, because in the summer people are looking for someone to snuggle up with for the winter. And because in the summer I could take off my shirt.

Andrew Tobias

#18. I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Bella Abzug

#19. OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

Mimi Rogers

#20. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

#21. Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

Moto Hagio

#22. Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.

Keke Palmer

#23. retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means "the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.

Martha Hall Kelly

#24. I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#25. There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

Dominic Cooper

#26. I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

Ryan Gosling

#27. One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Richard Louv

#28. I don't think you can describe your ideal girl. A big part of that is just meeting someone and really clicking with them and wanting to hang out with them all of the time.

Aziz Ansari

#29. In Japanese, koi no yokan means the ineluctable feeling you have, upon meeting someone for the first time, that eventually the two of you will fall in love.

Alena Graedon

#30. It's the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who'll help you out of it

Charles Stross

#31. I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

Judy Greer

#33. When merely meeting someone is ridden with angst and open to misinterpretation, is it any wonder she is so hopeless at relationships.

Sarah Rayner

#34. If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

Og Mandino

#35. Despite his words, Lee knew that with someone like Wren, the amount of time didn't really matter all that much. She was the kind of person who could leave a mark with just one meeting.

Stephanie Fournet

#36. It was in the fishbowl of the meeting room that everything went completely insane, and this was coming from someone who'd just been visited in a dream by Konstantin Black.

Amanda Hocking

#37. When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

John Lloyd Young

#38. Even though I have not yet met you, you are part of me and I am part of you.

Debasish Mridha

#39. You see?" The Father whispered as the boy passed without meeting their eyes. "You shouldn't feel ashamed of your problem. Your life experiences oftentimes is the same as someone else's.

Teresa Lo

#40. There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Rusty Berkus

#41. I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

Alice Dreger

#42. When someone stands you up for a meeting, sure, you have the right to be disappointed, and perhaps even angry. But you can't take it personally - they probably do it to everyone.

Ronnie Apteker

#43. There's an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other's lives. It's that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who'll never look at you and think of it again.

Danielle Esplin

#44. Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.

Jana Wolff

#45. Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

Octavia Spencer

#46. I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Joseph Stefano

#47. There are moments, when you're getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you've known your whole life.

Leah Raeder

#48. If you're making a conscious effort ... someone should be meeting you on the same page. Don't be silly be smart.

Turcois Ominek

#49. I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.

Alexa Von Tobel

#50. Even as grief flickers in me, I feel something like a first kiss happening - a meeting with someone dearly amazing, life-changing, lucky....

Laurie Perez

#51. Sometimes we meet someone and feel like we have known them all our lives.

Avijeet Das

#52. Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
"It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.

Tahereh Mafi

#53. If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.

Arielle Kebbel

#54. She said no, Lark, Cole said, his eyes meeting Kelsey's. Kelsey felt her stomach flutter. And it
wasn't from nausea.

Maisey Yates

#55. There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.

Stacey Lee

#56. The RNC has made a concerted effort to work with their allies with a real focus on what we can do to equip candidates with the resources to win in 2014 and beyond. There isn't a week that goes by that I don't see someone from the RNC at our weekly coalition meeting. Keep up the good work.

Grover Norquist

#57. There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.

Antoine Laurain

#58. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

Carson McCullers

#59. You meeting me in such an unexpected way is a sign from God that we are meant to be together!

Avijeet Das

#60. I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.

Robin Talley

#61. Next time you're afraid to share ideas, remember someone once said in a meeting, 'Let's make a film with a tornado full of sharks.

Unknown

#62. 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

#63. Today I bumped into you again. You seemed like that flower long forgotten in the old diary.

Avijeet Das

#64. Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them ... You were someone to me.

Kate Chisman

#65. She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

Jojo Moyes

#66. Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy.

Haruki Murakami

#67. It's an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting; a gentle pressure that creates a slow burn. The type of kiss you give to someone that means something. This isn't the type of kiss to be wasted on me.

Katie McGarry

#68. You meet someone and it's so much more than meeting them. It's so much bigger and it's like you're enchanted by them.

Taylor Swift

#69. If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.

Roger Zelazny

#70. I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him ... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.

Heidi R. Kling

#71. It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

Karin Slaughter

#72. When you fall in love, you fall in love with yourself, when you kill yourself, you kill someone else.

Jessica Treat

#73. Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

Daniel Handler

#74. It's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, "Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you."

J.J. Abrams

#75. She wished that the werewolves had picked someone - anyone - other than Levi to represent the pack at their meeting while Abel was in mourning. Someone who was slightly less of an idiot.

S.M. Reine

#76. The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#77. Seal the Deal Tip: When meeting with someone who asks a lot of questions, they're seeking information. Once you meet their need for proof and information, they will say Yes! I want to do business with you.

Lisa A. Mininni

#78. Mountains and Hills not meet each other but People Will.

Jan Jansen

#79. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.

Mother Teresa

#80. Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.

Bernie Sanders

#81. It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.

Michael Ritchie

#82. We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so many ways of meeting people. I like to meet someone and have that chivalry, to take them out on a date and actually be a gentleman. I think that's becoming rarer and rarer.

Alex Pettyfer

#83. When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

Karen Salmansohn

#84. When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

Taylor Swift

#85. I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

Richard Branson

#86. Think about meeting your goals, not about wining over someone else

Stuart Diamond

#87. A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Rich Lowry

#88. It's great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that's not what you're there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.

Beth Ramsay

#89. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.

Matt Groening

#90. Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you're a celebrity.

Christie Brinkley

#91. On a perfect weekend, I'll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I'll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#92. Before meeting you, I didn't know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself to be alone. That's because when you feel lonely, it means that there is someone for you to miss.

Yuuki Obata

#93. Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

Ted Rall

#94. If there's someone that I just wan to work with in the future, I set a general meeting and I say, "I'm a really big fan. I want to meet you. I'd love to collaborate with you someday and hopefully you'll remember that for the next time you have something that I could be right for."

Hilary Swank

#95. [To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Queen Elizabeth II

#96. Whenever they met, the air crackled and sparks flew in the sky.

Avijeet Das

#97. When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

Charles Kettering

#98. When I was meeting people in L.A., guys always thought if they paid for dinner, they deserved a blow job. But generally, I'll say this - and I'll say it proudly - I can't sleep with someone if I don't have a connection with them.

Katy Perry

#99. Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.

David Williamson Shaffer

#100. I also finally see that a crimson kiss isn't something you can chase, because it's more than just the passionate meeting of mouths.
It's a confession.
It's the truth your lips whisper to someone you love.

Wendelin Van Draanen