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Quotes About Arrival

C'est comme d'attendre Dieu ou Godot, sauf qu'à la place, c'est Jansson qui arrive.
~ Henning Mankell
In every arrival there is a leave-taking; in every reunion there is a separation; in each one's growing up there is a growing old; in every smile there is a tear; and in every success there is a loss. All living is dying, and all celebration is mortification too.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Advent . . . leads to a growing inner stillness and joy allowing me to realize that the One for whom I am waiting has already arrived and speaks to me in the silence of my heart.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Death, that inexorable judge, had passed sentence on him, and refused to grant him a reprieve, though two doctors who arrived, and were fee'd at one and the same instant, were his counsel.
~ Henry Fielding
At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open-handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for. Poor Ralph had been for many weeks steeped in melancholy; his outlook, habitually somber, lay under the shadow of a deeper cloud.
~ Henry James
It little matters, for relief arrived. I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.
~ Henry James
One if by land, two if by sea.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.
~ Christo
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
I've had an incredible reception at Chelsea. John Terry is an exemplary captain, who has treated me very well since I arrived.
~ Pedro
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.
~ Deborah Sampson
Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
New York law required that shipowners guarantee that each immigrant passenger would not, upon arrival, become a candidate for public welfare.
~ Stephen Birmingham
Then a stranger—a Dutchman who has just arrived—catches my vision, jumps into my circle, and we dance a dance as fierce as I have ever danced before. If my back breaks, if I drop dead, it doesn't matter. I am twenty-four. I am healthy. I am whole.
~ Stephen Cope
He didn't so much get there as just never leave.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
See how the passengers all turn and talk to one another now as they get nearer and nearer to the little town.
~ Stephen Leacock
For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as if by magic, but in the long, hard work of The Way.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
But, strange to tell, though I could remember those first glowing days of my arrival, I could not without intense effort recall much of my life before that—save in the most indefinite terms. Indeed, when compared to the intensely vivid life I knew in Albion, my life before coming to the Otherworld seemed almost unutterably remote and insignificant, little more than a vague pantomime acted out in a dim, colorless, half-light.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
One thing that has impressed me for years-and which was so poignantly displayed in Mel Gibson's gripping film-is the reality that one reason why the religious leaders in Christ's day rejected their Messiah was because they misunderstood the Old Testament prophecies predicting His arrival. Think about it. Because it happened once, couldn't it happen again?
~ Steve Wohlberg
Hello, Capustan. The Bridgeburners have arrived.
~ Steven Erikson
And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.
~ Steven Erikson
The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'
~ John Hench
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~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Qué podía ser sino el amor que había llegado de ese modo para que él lo reconociese?
~ Milan Kundera