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Quotes About Arriving

The Duchess of Denver was pouring out coffee. This was one of her uncomfortable habits. Persons arriving late for breakfast were thereby made painfully aware of their sloth. She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here." To welcome visitors the arrivals hall featured a picture of the president of NowWhat, smiling. It was the only picture anybody could find of him, and it had been taken shortly after he had shot himself, so although the photo had been retouched as well as could be managed, the smile it wore was rather a ghastly one.
~ Douglas Adams
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
~ Alan Paton
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
~ Ted Cruz
When live is one Big Party in our Mind the Happiness is Arriving
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Look here, Stevens, the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight.' 'We are well prepared, sir.' 'What happens within this house after that may have considerable repercussions.' 'Yes, sir.' 'I mean considerable repercussions. On the whole course Europe is taking. In view of the persons who will be present, I do not think I exaggerate.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving.
~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
twin gods of Smooth Traffic and Ample Parking—have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to but not worth arriving at.
~ Jeff Speck
And in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in. Finds such a welcome that she stays.
~ Elizabeth Berg
She was arriving with an agenda—drop the suit against Robert, first, and agree to dissolve the association for the purpose of donating the lands to a trust—but coached herself that it would be wise to consider his concerns before she asked for anything. Archie wore a gilded cape of male vanity and would need it admired.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill - only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.
~ Derek Jarman
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
S]orrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich ... Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
~ Alan Paton
The first, and in a way the only, necessary condition for arriving at centralizing public power in a democratic society is to love equality
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.
~ Joyce DiDonato
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
~ Ban Ki-moon
I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.
~ Margaret Atwood
Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.
~ Donna Farhi
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
A dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
~ George Eliot
dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic
~ George Eliot
Since arriving in Washington in January 2015, I have pushed for a strategic framework that clearly articulates how we'll tackle threats in cyberspace.
~ Ben Sasse
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
~ John Wooden