Quotes About Meeting Someone Unexpectedly

#1. If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

Jose Andres

#2. When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.

Ben Lerner

#3. That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Anonymous

#4. If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

Phil Angelides

#5. My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.

Betty Parsons

#6. Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

Patricia Cornwell

#7. The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

Laurie Seidler

#9. I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

Gilda Radner

#10. Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening - it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

Andrew Hunt

#11. That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Lynd

#13. My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#14. If a person do not seek God's face, all of his merits will be working for evil

Sunday Adelaja

#15. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.

C. JoyBell C.

#16. But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

Walter Mosley

#17. It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother.

Ramez Naam