Arriving Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Ends

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Anchors, Tourism

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Hands, Forever, Promise

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

  Pat Conroy

  Home, Mean, Different

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.562, Open Road Media

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• The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

  Ron Perlman

  Birthday, Careers, Age

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• In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

  Roland Allen

  Decision, Doubt, Might

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.50, The Lutterworth Press

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

  Albert Pike

  Philosophy, Journey, Perfection

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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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 Colby

  Mind, Way, Company

  Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”

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• Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

  Michael N. Castle

  Dream, Teacher, Class

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• My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

  Carol Burnett

  Mother, Stars, Block

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• The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

  Yehuda Berg

  Lines, Destination, Planets

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Dec 05, 2016

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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

  Guy, Actors, Talent

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Sports, Hope

  Virginibus Puerisque "El Dorado" (1881)

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• I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

  Susan Orlean

  School, Son, Ideas

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• 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 Duffy

  Writing, Shapes, Methodology

  "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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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 Fowler

  Way, Punctuality, Late

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin

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• With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Morning, Zoos, Crazy

  "Gillbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". "Celebrity travel", www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

  Eric Schmidt

  Karma, Sunrise, Bed

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