Meeting Quotes - page 3

A bridge is a meeting place... a possibility, a metaphor. (Jeanette Winterson)
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. View quote
Camille Paglia
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. View quote
Bell hooks
Now every day, every hour, everywhere there is mat'rial (material) for meeting demonstrations! View quote
Todor Zhivkov
The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said "you are one brave young man.” And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop. View quote
Mart Laar
I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man. View quote
Jon Anderson
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way. View quote
Terry Eagleton
I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years. (Gary Snyder)
We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, "You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me." It makes me weepy ... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me. View quote
Benazir Bhutto
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged. View quote
Walter Bagehot
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. View quote
Walter Bagehot
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Death is a meeting place of sea and sea. View quote
Conrad Aiken
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. View quote
Douglas Adams
Remembrance is a form of meeting. (Kahlil Gibran)
Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air. View quote
Bill Gates
If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory. View quote
Yoshida Shoin
Journeys end in lovers meeting. View quote
William Shakespeare
I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there. View quote
Jack Osbourne