quotes about Arriving
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
-- Alan PatonSource : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
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One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.
-- Aminu KanoSource : Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”
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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 -
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Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.
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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.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
-- Baltasar GracianSource : Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.31, Shambhala Publications
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
-- Barbara Cartland -
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Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
-- Benjamin Graham -
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
-- Bernhard SchlinkSource : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.180, Vintage
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I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
-- Bill BrysonSource : Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker
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A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
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Arriving there is what you are destined for
-- C.P. CavafySource : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.19, Princeton University Press
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It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.
-- Carlos Slim -
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 DuffySource : "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.
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When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.
-- Chip Heath -
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Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.
-- Chris HadfieldSource : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.89, Pan Macmillan
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We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
-- David Bowie -
I travel, always arriving in the same place.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
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The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.
-- Elizabeth StroutSource : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
-- Frank Moore ColbySource : Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”
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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 -
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
-- George Eliot -
When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".
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The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely
-- Jackson Pollock -
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
-- Jackson Pollock -
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Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.
-- John Dewey -
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
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Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
-- Karen Joy FowlerSource : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin
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The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.
-- Kurt Elling -
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
-- Laozi -
There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.
-- Laurence EquilbeySource : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.
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Striving can be more important than arriving.
-- Marvin J. Ashton -
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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 -
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
-- Nhat Hanh -
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
-- Richard LinklaterSource : "Fictional character: Boat Car Guy". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.
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What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
-- Robert Wagner -
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Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
-- Sarah Lewis -
You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.
-- Wolf Blitzer -
The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
-- Yehuda Berg -
I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food
-- Zach Galifianakis -
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There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
-- Ali Farahnakian -
We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
You can go watch everything so you can see a transition of someone who is coming into his own. That's what I feel like my music is. I'm finally here, arriving and I know exactly what I want to talk to people about.
-- Young De -
You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.
-- Curt SiodmakSource : "Fictional character: Frank Raymond". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.
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A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.
-- Richard D. WolffSource : "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.
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There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.
-- Kim SmithSource : Source: www.ptmollie.com