meet quotes

   Thereforethus will Idountothee,OIsrael: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God,O Israel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Amos 4:12.

   It is meet and right so to do.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion, versicles and responses.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

-James, Henry
Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  In The Idler, no.11, 24  Jun.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Ballad of East and West'.

I don't meet competition. I crush it.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
  In Time,16 Jun.

I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death', l.1.^4. Collected inThe Wild Swans at Coole (1919).

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