Meeting Someone quotes
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'."
"Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are"
"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
"That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity."
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