Top 100 Quotes About Arriving
#1. shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?
Thomas Jefferson
#2. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
#3. The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#4. PART TWO I IN October 1805 the Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau
Leo Tolstoy
#5. Arriving at a mansion with another gate, low and nearly invisible inside its landscape gardening, seeming so much constructed of night itself that at sunrise it might all disappear.
Thomas Pynchon
#6. Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
Douglas Adams
#7. As Blaise Pascal put it in his famous wager: "You have to wager. It is not up to you, you are already committed."7 You can't not bet your life on something. You can't not be headed somewhere. We live leaning forward, bent on arriving at the place we long for.
James K.A. Smith
#8. They don't expect anything from the French state, since they learned to stay hidden, often arriving without papers," he said. "Unemployment in France is of little concern, because essentially they're all entrepreneurs. It's a state of mind.
Anonymous
#9. [To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here
Billy Connolly
#10. Be thoughtful and strategic, but also be open to blessings arriving in unexpected forms.
Stacy Hawkins Adams
#11. ... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...
Jose Saramago
#12. I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow.
Alex Turner
#13. Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
Elbert Hubbard
#14. [Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a very small amount, but if for whatever reason it's not arriving at the moment, it may last forever. Thinking about it won't change any of that.
Jon Fratelli
#15. She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.
Jonathan Franzen
#16. Arriving there is what you are destined for
C.P. Cavafy
#17. It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird.
Kendare Blake
#18. Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.
Dennis Prager
#19. I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little ... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.
Sasha Roiz
#20. If you see adversity arriving at your game field, time to put on your pads and let see how well you can tackle adversity.
Kevin Abromitis
#21. The ... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
Augustus John
#22. We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Amar Bose
#23. The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.
William Zinsser
#24. With all due respect to UPS - it's a fine company - nobody cares about logistics. They care about that package arriving at their home, at their office, when it is supposed to and in the condition it's supposed to. FedEx is a much better communicator than UPS.
Frank Luntz
#25. With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.
Gilbert Gottfried
#26. Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
Bernhard Schlink
#27. It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
Hans Jonas
#28. I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
Carol Ann Duffy
#29. If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
Catherynne M Valente
#30. Suddenly, books are arriving every day! "So many books, so little time.
Frank Zappa
#31. Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.
Richard Rohr
#32. It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year ... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?
E.L. Doctorow
#33. My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.
Siobhan Davis
#34. It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.
Pete Sanders
#35. You all cool?"
"I'm cool," confirmed Becks.
"I haven't been 'cool' since arriving in this godforsaken hellhole you persist in claiming is a civilized nation. I am, however, ready to go violate a few more laws.
Mira Grant
#36. I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.
Sirio Maccioni
#37. Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
Sarah Lewis
#38. It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.
John Updike
#39. There were black mountains on which nothing, no grass or trees, seemed to grow. Thin lines that twisted unpredictably, with tributaries arriving nowhere. Not rivers, but roads.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#40. Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#41. She had nothing against any of the other guests, but once she started she saw no way to stop. There was nothing to do but turn the hose against every arriving guest. No one coming out of the house to reason with her was safe either.
Katherine Paterson
#42. History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#43. He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.
Terry Pratchett
#44. Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#45. The strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful. one
Charles Bukowski
#46. The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
Fred Brooks
#47. The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.
Jeff Goins
#48. I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?
Gretel Ehrlich
#49. I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.
Neil Gaiman
#50. The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome.
Derek Walcott
#51. We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
Napoleon Hill
#52. Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
Ban Ki-moon
#54. The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
Ron Perlman
#55. The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
Mary Doria Russell
#56. New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Joanna Southcott
#57. Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
Isaac Marion
#58. I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.'
Adelaide Clemens
#59. Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.
Lisa Bevere
#60. This is Bayle's meeting, isn't it?" Kennet asked, looking over his shoulder at the large bronze clock hanging on the wall. "Doesn't he know it's rude to arrive late to your own party?"
"When you arrived late to your own birthday party, you told me that was arriving in style," Linnea reminded him.
Amanda Hocking
#61. When live is one Big Party in our Mind the Happiness is Arriving
Jan Jansen
#62. The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'
John Hench
#63. Trouble at two o'clock. Evil bitch and copycat cohort arriving in three, two, one ... annnd ... they're here.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#64. Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, least need it and when you least want it.
Jodi Picoult
#65. I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
Pat Conroy
#66. The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them..
J.G. Farrell
#67. The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.
China Mieville
#68. One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
Peter Higgs
#69. It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380. After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went ... up.
Steven D. Levitt
#70. By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.
Saul David
#71. I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse's elite salon in Flaubert's Sentimental Education - a
Chris Kraus
#72. If you ever go to any event ever, for any reason, they will give you a tote bag. Medical conference? Tote bag. Wedding? Tote bag. Syrian refugee arriving in Canada? Maple leaf tote bag. My orthodontist gave me a tote bag. And a t-shirt. Which I put in the tote bag.
Jennifer McCartney
#73. Arriving late, thought the Count with a sigh. What a delicacy of youth. Then
Amor Towles
#74. Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
Steve Erickson
#75. For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.
Plato
#76. We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Frank Moore Colby
#77. Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
Napoleon Hill
#78. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#79. Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.
Bryant McGill
#80. American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
John Amery
#81. Oddly enough, though, that day with Lulu it didn't feel anything like falling. It felt like arriving
Gayle Forman
#82. The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You
Ruskin Bond
#83. I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
Amy Lowell
#84. The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Kevin Powers
#85. The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich.
Rush Limbaugh
#86. Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.
Nick Hornby
#87. I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.
Margaret Atwood
#88. I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many.
John Connolly
#89. I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'
Martin Freeman
#90. But the boy was not cheated by her ignorance. He was not intensely interested in answers, the things themselves were enough. So he ran on, holding the leaf by its twig, or feather by its quill, and whereas his mother thought mostly of arriving, discovery kept him in a state of endless being.
Patrick White
#92. We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
David Axelrod
#93. And if it is possible that creatures live underwater, could not creatures also live under the earth, nations of salamanders capable of arriving, through their tunnels, at the central fire that animates the planet?
Umberto Eco
#94. Enough, I say. Our guests will be arriving shortly, and I would as lief they were left in the dark about this particular strain of insanity in the family that makes you two revert to childhood at the drop of a napkin.
Kasey Michaels
#95. Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.
Zoe McLellan
#96. Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.
Marvin J. Ashton
#97. The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
Ted Cruz
#98. We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
D. Elton Trueblood
#99. There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden
#100. I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.
John Kennedy Toole
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