Meetings Quotes · Page 4

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter

“I don't like exams. I don't like giving exams, and I don't like meetings.”

— Mark W. Moffett

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

— Victor Hugo

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

— Augusten Burroughs

Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing...

— Kanye West

“Much ado was always made about secretive meetings.”

— Lorraine Heath

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— George Will

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

— Jilly Cooper

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

— Simone Weil

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You know, if this country just allowed a couple of hours between meetings, we might actually have time to achieve something.”

— Colin Cotterill

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— George Will

I don't talk during production meetings, people don't generally say anything.

— Michelle McCool

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that…

— Wesley Clark

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do…

— Ross Bleckner

It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique…

— Thom Powers

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to…

— Warren Christopher

Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without…

— Laozi

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research,…

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for…

— Justin Rosenstein

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then…

— Chrissy Teigen

The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert…

— Stephen Kendrick

Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying,…

— Fred Hoyle

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally…

— Richard Gregory

The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous…

— Charlie Munger

At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was…

— Elaine Dundy

Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends…

— George Orwell

“Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.”

— Amit Kalantri

I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

— Patrick Lencioni

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.

— Thia Megia

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

— Bob Dylan

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Not every man in a strange land is a stranger.”

— Joshua A Adebodun

We meet the people were supposed to when the time is just right.

— Alyson Noel

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

— Nick Frost