Arrivals Quotes - Page 10

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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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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Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Jacob Zuma

Capes, Towns, Problem

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We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.

Carl Pope

Regret, Oil, House

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We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

Stephane Simian

Stars, Tennis, Sides

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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

Daniel Alarcon

Land, Support, Emigration

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Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Nuruddin Farah

Arrogance, Receiving, Guests

Nuruddin Farah (2015). “Hiding in Plain Sight”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.

Charles de Lint

Running, Dog, Kids

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Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.

Anthony Lawlor

Travel, Journey, Each Day

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Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

Eric Liu

Sports, Athlete, Nba

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Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Eric Berne

Life, Long, Waiting

'Games People Play' (1964) ch. 18

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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.

Ambrose Bierce

Life, Journey, Thinking

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce”, p.13, e-artnow

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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

Rudolf Arnheim

Country, Newcomers, Immigrants

Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.165, Univ of California Press

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The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Eye, Avid, Giving

"The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two in 'The Burial', B/O, 1967.

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Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

Michael Foot

Party, Sight, World

Michael Foot (1980). “Debts of Honour”, London : Davis Poynter

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Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

Robert Charles Wilson

New York, July, Knives

"Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.

M.C. Beaton

Eye, Airports, Years

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Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides

Christopher Flavin

Hard Times, Men, Wife

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My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

Budd Hopkins

Feelings, Sculpture, May

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Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

Edward Gibbon

Attachment, History, Important

Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

Omar Khayyam

Drinking, Sleep, Heaven

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My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Mean, People, Netherlands

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Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

William Feather

Girl, Sex, Intelligent

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It's a never-ending struggle, which is great. You can always get better! You can never get there. It's a journey with no arrival. And that's the beauty of it -- that you can always become better the next day. It's pretty cool to think about it in that sense. Tomorrow I will be a better player than I was today.

Tiger Woods

Struggle, Thinking, Player

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Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.

Wayne Dyer

Trying, Facts, Moments

New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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