Arrivals Quotes - Page 7

• To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.

  Henry James

  Strong, Book, Imagination

  Henry James (1994). “Henry James: selected works”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Departure, Earth

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• It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Jobs, Dark, Artist

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin

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• No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Cities, San Francisco

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Opening Up, Editors

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Men, One Day

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• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Happiness, Live Life, Race

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• For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Journey, Doctrine, Departure

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

  Alvin Toffler

  Disorientation, Shock, Change Management

  Horizon, Summer 1965

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• The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Real, Knowledge, Principles

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

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• Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Jobs, Islands, Years

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• I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Australia, Suffering, Three

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• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Suicide, Block, War

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• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Opportunity, Arriving

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

  Seamus Heaney

  Matter, Facts, Unexpected

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

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• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Funny, Time, Money

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Anchors, Tourism

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Mean, Way

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• For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man on this earth into the cloud where I dwell in Your light, that is, Your darkness, where I am lost and abashed. I cannot explain to any other man the anguish which is Your joy nor the loss which is the Possession of You, nor the distance from all things which is the arrival in You, nor the death which is the birth in You because I do not know anything about it myself and all I know is that I wish it were over - I wish it were begun.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Distance, Loss

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

  Luis Valdez

  Country, Liberty, Facts

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• The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer.

  Trevor Francis

  Natural, Born, Lifts

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• God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

  Max Lucado

  Journey, Would Be, Easy

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  David Hockney

  Spring, Space, Tree

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