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  • I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the leading edge of the self-transcending drive that always goes beyond what went before. I think they embody the very drive of the Kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness. I think they are riding the edge of a light beam toward a rendezvous with God.

    Thinking   Self   Light  
    Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.63, Shambhala Publications
  • You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

    Children   Destiny   Men  
    A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
  • Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

  • Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

    Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press
  • Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

    Land   Choices   Titles  
    Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
  • When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

    Wow   Scene   Rendezvous  
  • She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

    Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.408, Anchor
  • Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

  • There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

  • We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

    Destiny   Men   People  
    Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group
  • Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

    Memorable   Men   Water  
    "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.
  • It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

    Sir Walter Scott (1831). “Waverley Novels: Kenilworth”, p.3
  • In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.

    Rome   Flames   Faithful  
    Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”
  • The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.

    Years   Important   Three  
  • I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

    Music   Morning   Piano  
  • A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

    Destiny   Self   Cities  
    Ronald Reagan’s Announcement for Presidential Candidacy, www.reaganlibrary.gov. November 13, 1979.
  • If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

    Song: Two for the Road, 2004
  • To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.

  • When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

    Girl   Men   Looks  
  • With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for an escape opportunity. Maybe a hole in the wall too small for Tori’s mom to follow me through or a precarious stack of boxes I could topple onto her head or an abandoned hammer I could brain her with. I’d never “brained” anyone in my life, but with Tori’s mom, I was willing to try.

    Mom   Wall   Opportunity  
    Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.56, Penguin Group
  • You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

    Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.
  • There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

    Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936
  • This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

    Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936
  • Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked moose crashing through the woods," the smarter man chided. "Oh yeah. Like you could hear me over your specially trained 'woodland-animal footsteps,'" Rough Voice countered. "It was like listening to two deer humping each other.

    Men   Animal   Lakes  
    Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.103, Harlequin
  • The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

    War   Sea   History  
  • But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

    Spring   Years   Towns  
    "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" l. 20 (1916)
  • I have a rendezvous with life.

    Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.22, Library of America
  • I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.765, Best Books on
  • If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

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