Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.
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Related The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. CHARLES DICKENS There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. PROVERB In every parting there is an image of death. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. TRYON EDWARDS People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. ANTON CHEKHOV People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them ANTON CHEKHOV It was like the parting of the seas. DAVID MCCULLOUGH New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER But what you minded most at our final parting was that in my poor rags -but was it not the costume o... JAROSLAV SEIFERT There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, o... THOMAS C. HALIBURTON Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss ... SARAH KAY Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrectio... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Parting is such sweet sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. STEVE BUSCEMI I gave her a parting gift, an alarm clock; it was mine, but it was broken. It was meant as an artifa... JANE PAULEY Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting. SEAMUS MALLON The Israeli side got in touch and this meeting was postponed. We don't want the meeting just for the... SAEB EREKAT This is the first meeting of the [committee] that was put together, ... Truly, until we had the fede... DAVID RICE Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life. HEATHER MILLS Our meeting was well attended by faculty, staff and parents of the children in our community that en... GENE LAMONT each meeting there must be a separation, do not weep for the breakup, but wept because there was a m... JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) As our September FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting followed Hurricane Katrina by approxim... MARK OLSON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS This is the first meeting of the [committee] that was put together, ... Truly, until we had the... DAVID RICE This meeting was to hear the views of the representatives of the Florida Cuban-American community. T... MARIA TAMBURRI Life in part is what you make of it... in parting it is what it makes out of you. JANICE MARKOWITZ She has a credibility problem, at least in some people's opinions, especially as far as the delegate... BILL HIRST We had to find a meeting place in everything, ... Every aspect of the piece is a collaboration. ERIC BASS It's not why the meeting is taking place, but it will be raised at the meeting as an example of the ... DUNCAN BULLIVANT Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every aspect of A&E was examined in 2002. They had the 10-point plan, different fora, meeting after ... LIAM DORAN This meeting was a transparent meeting - previously known to the authorities - of those working towa... KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday ev... MAYA ANGELOU There was a little bit of good cop, bad cop in our locker room and in the meeting rooms. PETE KENDALL Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. GEORGE ELIOT It was all very positive, a very good meeting. He outlined eventually what the process would be as f... DON PORTER I think the meeting was a waste of time, from the landowners' point of view, because everything was ... RATU PENIASI KALISAILOAQA If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;
If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We had a team meeting earlier this week and revisited some of our goals. Everything was really posit... HEIDI ROMER The meeting was more formal than what we'd hoped for. This is a busy time of year for everybody, and... LISA HURD You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your- CASSANDRA CLARE A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direct... JACK KEROUAC Since the day he was born, he'd been defying the odds. Today was not the day to stop that trend. Unl... SHERRILYN KENYON If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as on... ROHINTON MISTRY The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting day. WILLIAM FALCONER J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeti... TERENCE WINTER He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. QUEEN VICTORIA The bottom line is he won't be playing for Manly. It was an amicable parting of the ways and we wish... FRANK ELLIS Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Managem... HAMID AWALUDDIN purpose of the meeting was to understand if there was an opportunity for a broad collaboration betwe... DANIEL ROSEN The general secretary knows everything and only he can give you the explanation. I am always ready t... ALI ASGHAR It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate... L.M. MONTGOMERY Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe?
Shall I bid her goe and spare not?
Oh no, no, no, I d... THOMAS PERCY Such parting break the heart they fondly hope to heal. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Say good-bye er howdy-do--
What's the odds betwixt the two?
Comin'--goin'--every day--
B... JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting,
The parting hour is come!
And fast thy soul is fleeting
... PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear, and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
... ROBERT DODSLEY She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
... FRANCIS THOMPSON They say be parted well and paid his score,
And so, God be with him. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But in vain she did conjure him,
To depart her presence so,
Having a thousand tongues t' allur... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part. MATTHEW PRIOR If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, whil... THOMAS OTWAY My Book and Heart
Shall never part. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the
head of the two ways, to use divina... BIBLE Till then, good-night!
You wish the time were now? And I.
You do not blush to wish it so?
... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Good night! I have to say good night,
To such a host of peerless things! THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
Th... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
T... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Let's not unman each other--part at once;
All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
Else t... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part. JOHN GAY Gone--flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morr... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Since the day he was born, he'd been defying the odds. Today was not the day to stop that trend. Unl... SHERRILYN KENYON I was on a game show. When I lost, they gave me a lovely parting gift. It was a comb. SCOTT ROEBEN He slid his stele across the table toward her. "Use it." "No," Clary said, and pushed the stele back... CASSANDRA CLARE There was no incremental news that came out of the meeting. McDonald's has reached maturity in its l... SANDY SANDERS The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day. WILLIAM FALCONER One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first publ... ALICE MORSE EARLE I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We'r... KELLY ROWLAND Death and parting are the same. ABBAS IBN AL-AHNAF answer why you weren't at the meeting when rest of the FIFA family was there. GORDON TAYLOR I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I me... JOHN LENNON The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable ... NAGARJUNA It was a landmark church. God, it was just so beautiful. It was very spiritual -- you felt you were ... LENA MCLIN This isn't a meeting of discovery. It's a meeting to get some questions answered that the family hav... JAMES PAPILLO If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone spe... JOYCE GRENFELL Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of my lif... STEVE MARABOLI Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is und... CASSANDRA CLARE The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, b... TIM HUNT They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew tha... NEIL GAIMAN The city council meeting was going along normally when all of a sudden there were screams and shots, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG The meeting was extremely positive, was issue-oriented, there were no polemics. ALBERT ROHAN Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. EMILY DICKINSON
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CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th... CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o... CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi... CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ... CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ... CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Fil... CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou... CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter... CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s... CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be. CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be. CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ... CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me... CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l... CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places. CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that... CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be... CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.” “I just wo... CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better. CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia... CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul... CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in res... CASSANDRA CLARE Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. CASSANDRA CLARE While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. CASSANDRA CLARE By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl... CASSANDRA CLARE It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to... CASSANDRA CLARE Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of cou... CASSANDRA CLARE A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'... CASSANDRA CLARE Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a... CASSANDRA CLARE Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki... CASSANDRA CLARE [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.” “Does he know that?” said Livvy. Julian sough... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu... CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of... CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said. “It was a little sexy,” Simon said. He felt much better, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al... CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. CASSANDRA CLARE