Arrivals Quotes - Page 3

• I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.

  Penelope Lively

  Dawn, Moments, Innocent

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

  J. C. Ryle

  Littles, Sin, Harm

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• Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.

  Eusebius

  School, Writing, Doctrine

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• Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

  Colson Whitehead

  Art, Hipster, Emotional

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• India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

  Aravind Adiga

  Wall, Broken, India

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• Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

  William Whipple

  Business, Important, Three

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• Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Team, Climbing, Hiking

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• Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Born

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

  Gerd von Rundstedt

  Eyebrows, Way, Path

  "The Other Side of the Hill". Book by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, p. 184, 1948.

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• The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Flying, Survival

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• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Disappointment, Desolation, Hopefully

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• Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Right Time, Accidents, Precise

  "Being Late". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Departure, World, Return

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "Forgotten Place," Chapter: "Reprise," p. 50), 1999.

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• A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

  John Flanagan

  Men, People, House

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• A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.

  Tom Robbins

  Kissing, Two, Departure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.148, Bantam

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• I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

  E. M. Forster

  Flower, Blue, Views

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

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• The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

  David Nicholls

  Party, Cities, Defeated

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• She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

  William Gibson

  Moving, White, Feet

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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• As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

  David Nicholls

  Thailand, Littles, Too Much

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• The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Journey, Thinking

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• Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.

  John Flanagan

  Kings, Rooms, Tone

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• I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Apology, Expectations, Waiting

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