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“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.”
J. D. Salinger
“When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.”
Marcel Achard
“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”
Carl Rogers
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”
William Shakespeare
“When shall we three meet again,in thunder, lightning or in rain.”
Madelein L'Engle
“Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."”
Calvin Coolidge
“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”
William Goldman
“Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.”
W. R. Inge
“I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
Mark Twain