Arrivals Quotes

• We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

  Antonio Guterres

  People, Choices, Humanity

  "U.N. Refugee Chief: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis Is 'Lagging Far Behind'". time.com. April 23, 2015.

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews...In France many believe, even amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge...Russia is no longer Israel's chosen land...Those who think that are making a mistake.

  Denis Fahey

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

  Jared Polis

  Brother, Native American, America

  Jared Polis' at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Sight

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• I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

  Eva Herzigova

  Sleep, Land, Lucky

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• The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Childhood, France

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• The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

  Seal

  Happiness, Children

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• Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Theory, Understood, Convinced

  Attributed to Chaim Weizmann, after a long trans-Atlantic journey; "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" credits Nigel Calder, "Einstein's Universe", 1979.

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  Carl Bernstein

  Beautiful, Crush, Girl

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• One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

  Derek Jarman

  Flower, Past, Civilization

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• In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Plato, Writing, Media

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Community, India

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage

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• Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

  Michael Bassey

  Fake Friends, Dog, Tails

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• When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

  Anna Brackett

  Travel, Journey, Long

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• The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

  William P. Young

  Heart, Depth, Unforeseen

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• I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the
  Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

  Horatio Nelson

  Believe, Welcome, Fame

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
  The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
  For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
  Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Horse, Past

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction between the old order and the new order is very important. Television delivered the world to our living room. In the old media, all we could do was press our noses against the glass and watch.

  Paul Saffo

  Glasses, Media, Order

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

  Judy Delton

  Believe, Home, Skills

  Judy Delton (1991). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Writer's Digest Books

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• An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Should Have, Ideas, Interesting

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• Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.

  Lilli Palmer

  People, Personality, Departure

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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