Meeting Quotes

• I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Legend

• Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Values
  • Meeting

• I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.

  

  David Droga
  • Inspiration
  • Bank
  • Torturous

• The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Group
  • Size
  • Inversely

• Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Meeting

• And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice — everywhere open to the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Find
  • Prejudice

• My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Sunday
  • Recovery
  • Pacific Palisades

• The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Meeting
  • Proportion
  • Inverse

• Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Star
  • Meeting
  • Shines

• I actually met with her a couple of weeks ago and the funny thing is, I actually don’t remember half of it. I remember the first half of meeting her, but then, as the night progressed, somebody decided to drink too much Jameson.

  

  Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
  • Remember
  • Drink
  • Jameson

• It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Meeting
  • Saints
  • Sinners

• I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Trouble
  • Ends
  • Meeting

• Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

  

  August Strindberg
  • Life
  • Leaving
  • Meeting

• Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Meeting
  • Rise
  • Soul-force

• You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Happened
  • Days
  • Meant

• Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Meeting
  • Nationalist
  • Imperialist

• 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
  • Hope
  • Human Beings
  • Meeting

• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friends
  • Speech
  • South Africa

• The position of Russia is the following: Why don't we have an extraordinary meeting (at the UN), debate the situation then go back to Vienna, continue discussions there and wait for the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board meetings in March.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Position
  • Russia
  • Discussions

• All of a sudden, life became too much to bear. Just like that, for no particular reason. Because there was a child’s corpse in the fridge on rue Parthenais. Because I had to start all over again from scratch, one more time. Because I had rolled my rock to the top of the hill and now it was rolling back down again. The times before, I’d always managed to put on a brave face. But there comes a time when you just don’t feel strong enough to look for another place to live and go shopping again for clothes and dishes and cutlery and scouring pads and toilet paper. This was one of those times. When I got back to the hotel, I asked the Barbie at reception for the key to the minibar. It burned in the palm of my hand. I slapped it back down on the counter and ran out. I had to find a meeting.

  

  Bernard Emond
  • Hand
  • Reason
  • Hotel

• We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Meeting
  • Recollect
  • Board of Directors

• This dovetails nicely with the 225-year anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress. I can foresee this being tied to all of the heritage tours that are offered.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Congress
  • Anniversary
  • Heritage

• When meeting me, I always see only good things in a person. Until the person himself proves the opposite.

  

  Vladimir Vysotsky
  • Good
  • Opposite
  • Proves

• Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • President
  • Meeting
  • Gracious

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