Quotes About Arrival

Having had time to come, Albertine must have arrived. I went straight to Françoise: "Is Mlle Albertine here?" "No one has come." Good God, did that mean that no one would be coming? I was in torment, Albertine's visit now seeming all the more desirable for being less certain.

he arrived; and on hearing his ring at the door I felt myself liberated from my obsessions. I knew that, if they were stronger than I, he was stronger than they, and my attention was diverted from them and concentrated on him who would have to settle them.

the knowledge that the hour was approaching when her husband ought to arrive without knowing whether or not he would send one of those telegrams of which the model had been wittily invented by M. de Guermantes: "Impossible to come, lie follows," paled her cheeks and ringed her eyes.

on; he might not be too late after all. The rain had picked up, and Cooper hurried up the walkway, still wishing for a jacket. As he approached the front door, he heard footsteps

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.

When coffee first arrived in London in the seventeenth century, it was shudderingly described as a drink "of a soote colour, dryed in a Furnace, and that they drinke as hote as can be endured.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

If you meet my expectations, please ask them to come home.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

When I saw the car pulling into the driveway and I saw her getting out and walking towards the house, can you imagine Nadezhda, I performed involuntary excretion in my trousers.

Se despidieron y en el adiós ya estaba la bienvenida

Me doy cuenta de que siempre temí esta explicación, pero también me doy cuenta de que mi mayor temor era que no llegara.

When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

Someone came too sooner.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

My horse was so late getting home, he tiptoed into the stable.

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.

Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. "Hey, Dark Princess? Here's your crap. Also, bite me.

People don't just appear on the beach unless they're demigods or gods or really, really lost pizza delivery guys. (It's happened—but that's another story.)