Meeting Quotes

• I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • College
  • Best
  • State

• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Why
  • May
  • Opinions

• Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Half
  • Meeting
  • Rare

• I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Meeting

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Like
  • Meeting
  • Reaction

• I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Girl
  • Meeting
  • Conversations

• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Couple

• I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Designer
  • Apologize

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Problem
  • Depression
  • Saturday

• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Meeting

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Friend
  • Temptation
  • Meeting

• Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Fighting
  • Blood
  • Nightmare

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• He was always very nice. What I remember more than meeting Connie Mack was meeting Honus Wagner when he was a coach for the Pirates.

  

  Bobby Bragan
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Coach

• I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Sarcastic

• I'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Events
  • Meeting

• We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Time
  • Committed
  • Communities

• I had a meeting of the North Atlantic Council this morning, and all the 19 ayes were absolutely like one country, ... Every country that belongs to NATO is behind the decision we have taken.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Country
  • Meeting
  • NATO

• The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thoughts
  • Circumstances
  • Abundance

• I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting.

  

  Norman Schwarzkopf
  • Job
  • Forgiving
  • Meeting

• I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Funny
  • Single

• In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Thought
  • August
  • Apple

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