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“there was a time before you
but I can't remember it now
a time before your beauty and I
were formally introduced
I'm sure I lived without you
but I don't remember how
can't imagine living without
these feelings you've produced

just one glance
and my life was redrawn
just one word
and my vocabulary changed
I asked the time
and you said 'what's the hurry?'
you asked my name
and I almost forgot”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies

“*The best way to describe Mr. Windling would be like this: You are at a meeting. You'd like to be away early. So would everyone else. There really isn't very much to discuss, anyway. And just as everyone can see Any Other Business coming over the horizon and is putting their papers neatly together, a voice says "If I can raise a minor matter, Mr. Chairman..." and with a horrible wooden feeling in your stomach you know, now, that the evening will go on for twice as long with much referring back to the minutes of earlier meetings. The man who has just said that, and is now sitting there with a smug smile of dedication to the committee process, is as near Mr. Windling as makes no difference. And something that distinguishes the Mr. Windlings of the universe is the term "in my humble opinion," which they think adds weight to their statements rather than indicating, in reality, "these are the mean little views of someone with the social grace of duckweed".”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.”
― Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones

“Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.”
― Michael Foley, Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

“Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Life is a series of meetings and separations.”
― Santosh Kalwar, That's My Love Story

“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri

“It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he make a fool of me wreck my image of myself invade me destroy me change me? Yes, that he will. There's the terrible thing: the strangeness of the stranger.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

“... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.”
― Amit Kalantri

“My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.”
― Ryan Lilly

“A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.”
― Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

“His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“If you arrive for a meeting with a man you do not trust, and the man you do not trust does not arrive, do not trust the man who first arrives at the meeting.”
― Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“None of us came here for the bells and whistles. It's [for] the personnel. These meetings? Like the one where you got your ass kicked? That's what makes you a better doctor. That's all that matters.”
― Dr. Gato Villanueva Monday Mornings

“Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.”
― Alain de Botton

“A meeting consists of a group of people who have little to say - until after the meeting.”
― P.K. Shaw

“Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.”
― Paul Axtell, Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations

“When they arrive at the English meeting at 2:50 on a Monday, people look generally disgusted. At the end of the meeting, they look specifically disgusted.”
― Patricia Maier

“(If you'd like to see it, I've been keeping a log of department meetings ranked according to level of trauma, with a 1 indicating mild contentiousness, a 3 signifying uncontrolled shouting, and a 5 leading to at least one nervous breakdown and/or immediate referral to the crisis center run by the Office of Mental Health.)”
― Julie Schumacher Dear Committee Members

“Diplomacy be damned, Nate preferred to say what was on his mind. ‘Yes, and Aladdin might fly out your ass on his magic carpet and take you for a spin too.”
― Teresa Schulz, Barbed Wire and Daisies