Arrivals Quotes - Page 4

• Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

  Octavio Paz

  Waiting

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1991). “The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Journey, Mind, Destined

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”

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• We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Reality, Opposites

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• Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels that cross the sea towards no arrival. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. I love what I do not have. You are so far. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. But night comes and starts to sing to me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Twilight, Tired

  Pablo Neruda, “Here I Love You”

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

  Rick Yancey

  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Men, House

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

  Lorrie Moore

  Boots, Matter, Rooms

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 11, 2014

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• How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

  Neal Shusterman

  Kids, Wife, Forget

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.855, Simon and Schuster

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• Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Ambition, Doors

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

  Rick Yancey

  Native American, Thinking, Silence

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.36, Penguin

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• We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

  Eric Schmidt

  Business, Color, Tvs

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• But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Mean, Past

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• And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally." Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. "Tradition?" "It's a new tradition," Amber shot back. "Clearly the deeper meaning of the word has escaped you.

  Darynda Jones

  Doubt, Amber, Brooklyn

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• It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Miracle, Matter

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.

  Julie Andrews

  Life, Book, Home

  "Julie Andrews Announces New Memoir". www.cbsnews.com. March 23, 2015.

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• It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.

  Edgar Snow

  Strong, Army, Men

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• As believers we have no need to fear death. Christ himself assures us of a safe arrival home in heaven!

  Paul P. Enns

  Home, Heaven, Needs

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.51, Moody Publishers

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Mean, Order, Departure

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• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

  Jonathan Ames

  Tennis, Sixteen, Complicated

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• Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to a point in the future time is a great victory!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Next Week, Years, Miracle

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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• As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

  Jane Levy

  People, Actors, Departure

  Source: collider.com

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• On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.

  Joe Queenan

  Baby, Memorable, Past

  "Proles in a pickle" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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