#meeting

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#close #club #dinner #divorced #each

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#brilliant #completely #even #everybody #i

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself. ↗

— Allan Carr

#because #celebrities #celebrity #excited #get

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#back #being #business #get #i

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#compassionate #conservatism #desire #faith #faith-based

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts. ↗

— John Conyers

#before #being #bill #conference #cut

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fate #life-changing #love #meeting #relationship

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#communist #communists #i #lines #meeting