Top 100 Arrives Quotes
#1. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
Hector Berlioz
#2. Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.
David Ogilvy
#3. Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.
Marianne Williamson
#4. Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them ... the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
Billy Graham
#5. Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.
William H Gass
#7. Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
Haruki Murakami
#8. The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.
Oscar Wilde
#9. The power to reach our goal is always in the moment. When the moment arrives, be ready to perform the action that will help you reach your goal, and be aware when the moment is now.
Russell Eric Dobda
#10. One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert
#11. Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#12. The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#13. When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.
Surya Das
#14. A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Peter Jackson
#15. Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan
Anne Carson
#16. That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian
#17. Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one.
Daryl Gregory
#18. The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.
Laozi
#19. Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Markus Zusak
#20. These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
Meher Baba
#21. The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
Teju Cole
#22. When food arrives, eat; enjoy what you have in every moment.
Jude Watson
#23. Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#24. I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms ... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.
Graham Sutherland
#25. Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#27. It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian
#28. Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.
Rajneesh
#29. When the auto arrives it's hard to believe there's a functional vehicle underneath all the mud and moss and sprays of gravel, which stick to the sides like barnacles on a ship.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#30. Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
#31. It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.
Josh Garrels
#32. Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.
Georg Solti
#33. I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
Charles Sheeler
#34. Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
Epicurus
#35. Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.
Piero Ferrucci
#36. When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.
Harold Camping
#37. Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.
Gordon Strachan
#38. There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde
#39. The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!
Leonard Jacobson
#40. If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.
Michael Clifford
#41. When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
Frederick Lenz
#42. But there's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending.
Jennifer E. Smith
#43. A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself
Maya Angelou
#44. If the name or shape weren't odd enough, the McRib has a strange "here today, gone tomorrow" existence. Like a serial deadbeat dad, the McRib arrives with great fanfare only to skip town without warning.
Jim Gaffigan
#45. What has death and a thick body dances before what has no thick body and no death. The trumpet says: "I am you." The spiritual master arrives and bows down to the beginning student. Try to live to see this!
Robert Bly
#46. Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008.
Mark Carney
#47. When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.
John McLaughlin
#48. When your pants are down around your ankles, that's when everyone arrives.
Nicole Krauss
#49. In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.
Leonard Nimoy
#50. I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet
Sarah Kay
#51. We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.
Leigh Bardugo
#52. When the night arrives, I often look up at the bright sky only to close my eyes and see the light within. Everything above so is below.
Nikhil Sharda
#53. Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.
Charlotte Rampling
#54. When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.
Walter J. Phillips
#56. The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Paul Watzlawick
#57. Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
Milarepa
#58. Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
Stephen Fry
#59. As language is sometimes audible before senses arrives.
Henri Cole
#60. Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
Vanna Bonta
#61. The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.
Adyashanti
#62. While watching the current state of America, I have concluded we should welcome the truth no matter how it arrives and justice no matter who or what it affects. When we don't, we become a vessel of mendacity and hypocrisy.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#63. ARRIVAL And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom - feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind ... !
William Carlos Williams
#64. Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
Eric Maisel
#65. The last five - six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.
Michel Martelly
#66. That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.'
'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.
Robert Jordan
#67. the room looks like it was bought through some Decorate Your Home app where you plug in your budget and your favorite colors and the whole thing arrives in a van the next day. In
Tana French
#68. Confidence is like a contagious virus. It may be rare and short-lived, but spreads quickly when it arrives.
[Daughter Mother Woman Chapter 24]
Arya Basu
#69. People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.
Eckhart Tolle
#70. His changes are true,
And oh for a reason.
His work is eternal,
And arrives in due season.
Kari L. Greenaway
#72. I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.
Lucian
#73. At all events, when I look back upon the boy I was, I see the beginnings of a real person who fades little by little as manhood arrives and advances, until suddenly I am aware that a stranger has taken his place ...
Winston Churchill
#74. But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question.
Markus Zusak
#75. Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
Stanley Crouch
#76. CHAPTER XXXVI IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE. BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN ITS TIME ARRIVES
Charles Dickens
#77. Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike
#78. When I got to San Francisco that afternoon, it was one of those days that arrives at the end of summer just as the last tourists are leaving complaining about the cold and fog.
Michael Nava
#79. I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper ... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.
Henry Moore
#80. In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.
John Burroughs
#81. I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.
Gillian Anderson
#82. Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn't we give ourselves permission to thrive?
Mandy Hale
#83. A woman can look powerful in a party, but when she arrives at home, all she wants is to feel comfortable.
Gisele Bundchen
#84. Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.
Geoff Dyer
#85. It doesn't take much to make me happy, but the simplest things are sometimes the hardest to get. But when if finally arrives, heaven help those who try to take it away from me.
Jaime Reed
#86. It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Johnny Depp
#87. One of the biggest problems with having a dream come true is recognizing it when it arrives.
Stephen Tobolowsky
#88. Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men ... Nah.
Craig Ferguson
#89. The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
Marianne Williamson
#90. A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.
Alex Ferguson
#91. I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.
Andre Breton
#92. John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.
Philip Schaff
#93. Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we'll have a sleepover and I'll tell you everything; but, as far as I'm concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.
Tarryn Fisher
#94. Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while ... It destroys before negotiations!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. Time arrives like a friend and then tiptoes away like a thief.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#96. Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#97. The celibate must firmly keep himself in Brahma Charya (i.e. chastity) until his wife arrives, he has to firmly establish himself in Brahma Charya and it is not possible to remain in Brahma Charya if we do not know how to transmute the sexual energy.
Samael Aun Weor
#98. If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?
Greg Rucka
#99. I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.
Julie Walters
#100. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Stephenie Meyer
