It was a serendipitous meeting.
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It was really serendipitous,
DAVID GILLETTE It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was a serendipitous discovery, something very surprising to us.
ARUL CHINNAIYAN Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL In one month I had my first lead and in three months I was director. It was serendipitous.
LARS TATOM Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
EOIN COLFER Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!
T.T. FAULKNER He may turn out to be better than Dan. He's already better than Dan was when he was a freshman.
DAN RAY Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
KAREN JOY FOWLER Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.
SEAMUS MALLON Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.
GINA GREENLEE Kadang-kadang cinta bersifat tamak dan loba, kadang-kadang was-was dan kadang-kadang putus asa.
HAMKA Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
FLOYD ABRAMS It was a very constructive meeting.
ALVARO SOTO It was a very constructive meeting.
ALVARO DE SOTO I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendip...
HAMISH BOWLES It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Butler is so talented and defend very well. It was a great victory for us because it proves that we ...
GEORGE WILLIAMS It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I would love a robot butler.
BRETT RATNER Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful conn...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG It was amazing meeting him,
JOAQUIN PHOENIX I'm simpley one hell of a butler.
SEBASTIAN MICHEALIS He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
AARON LAURITSEN over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
MARGARET WEIS But there was something really serendipitous that was happening, with some kind of energy that thing...
DAVE CHAPPELLE It was a private meeting between him and the family.
AMY JOHNSON It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela
RIO FERDINAND It was a business meeting and not a meeting for negotiations -- an attempt to break the ice and tens...
NABIL ABURDENEH It was a business meeting and not a meeting for negotiations -- an attempt to break the ice and tens...
YASSER ARAFAT Harry and the Butler
ANTHONY HOPKINS When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats...
HOWARD NEMEROV I thought Dan was going to start fighting right then, ... I was like, 'Listen, Dan, calm down, man. ...
CHRISTIAN FAURIA The meeting was a very positive step. It was a good day today in Baghdad.
ZALMAY KHALILZAD Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I had a good meeting with him. It was not contentious.
BILL MAROLT So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON This was not a meeting about apologies and the like. This was a meeting designed to address the legi...
DENNIS RICHARDSON We enjoy each other's company. It was just a really tribal meeting.
ERYKAH BADU It was a good meeting. Now the kids are almost like family.
MAC SCHWENKE At Tech, I was working day and night. At least at Butler, I can take a breather and see my family.
BOB LUCAS It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us m...
ELEANOR CATTON I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, ...
MARGARET MITCHELL It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
EOIN COLFER My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.
ROSS BUTLER As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shri...
EOIN COLFER After the March meeting it was considered a lot more, in more detail.
DARRELL VIRES Today's was a first provisional meeting.
FRANCESCO STORACE Dan was a real upbeat person, a dedicated employee and just an all-around nice guy.
GINNY DYCHE A storm in a cream bowl.
- James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,
JAMES BUTLER, FIRST DUKE OF ORMONDE I don't think that our score was that good, but it was good enough to win. Dan Clark had a 39 when e...
JOHN CORDES Every time we play Butler it rains, so that's not something new for us.
JOE BRESCHI It was a landmark church. God, it was just so beautiful. It was very spiritual -- you felt you were ...
LENA MCLIN She was down to earth and she was cool and believed in what Dan was doing.
IVAN GOLDE Dan Connor's class kind of started it.
JAMIE NEWBERG It was a very candid meeting, ... he wouldn't answer specifics about Mr. Richer's departure.
JENNIFER MILLERWISE I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.
TOM WOPAT Following their presentation I asked Dan Kelly if he would be willing to make a power point presenta...
JAMES WITTENBACH Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
BILL O'REILLY He was always very nice. What I remember more than meeting Connie Mack was meeting Honus Wagner when...
BOBBY BRAGAN I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON "...It was like talkin' to Hitler." 0n meeting Raquel Welch.
IGGY POP It was on the verge of collapse after that meeting.
JOSH FRANCO I followed the fullback [Lake's Dan Tarver] and he made an excellent block. The line surge was incre...
BRAD WEAVER I guess it is going to be a little more than just the regular business meeting. I don't know what's ...
LARRY KING I've never felt like it was a hindrance as a coach, I've never felt like it was a problem with a pla...
DICK JAURON The Israeli side got in touch and this meeting was postponed. We don't want the meeting just for the...
SAEB EREKAT It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT Dan took on a different role early, and he was satisfied to do that. But lately we entered a little ...
BOB MCMAHON It was contentious. You could sense a little bit of hostility but it was a productive meeting. I'm h...
JIM GALLAGHER I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjsrn and Agnetha.
ANNI-FRID LYNGSTAD It was a very positive meeting. We both said we want what's best for Valery.
ENRIQUE SALAS From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.
RONNIE SPECTOR It was a very good meeting. I'm very hopeful he'll look at expanding the program.
GREG SHARP each meeting there must be a separation, do not weep for the breakup, but wept because there was a m...
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) Dan is a lot like his dad was, and now Art II is a lot like his dad, Dan. They're close to the playe...
DICK HOAK There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through sync...
HANNELIE VENUCIA dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Salah satu anggapan dasar buku ini adalah bahwa adat memiliki kaidah dan nilai-nilai yang lebih adil...
MARSEN SINAGA It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually ch...
ADITI KHORANA At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regr...
STEPHEN KING The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with s...
DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ We have Tar Heel Nation in Butler County, Missouri.
GENE HANSBROUGH Kata-kata yang lemah dan beradab dapat melembutkan hati dan manusia yang keras.
HAMKA Dan drove like a champion today.
MICHAEL ANDRETTI Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
JACK O'BRIEN The usability of that lower level is a huge benefit of the new Butler.
JON HLAFTER Every time I thought that, (Butler) would come down and make a great shot.
DEMOND GARTH All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on s...
AMY HECKERLING And that is why I hate dogs."
" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel
YANA TOBOSO Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little s...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER