Arriving Quotes

162 Arriving quotes by 148 unique authors

You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing." Lev begins to… — Neal Shusterman
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… — Hunter S. Thompson
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you… — Italo Calvino
A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I… — Josh Groban
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch… — Elizabeth Strout
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of… — Ram Dass
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. — Bernhard Schlink
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. — Alan Paton
Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra… — Douglas Adams
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
Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she… — Elizabeth Strout
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving. — Richard Linklater
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately… — Dan Brown
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find… — John Kennedy Toole
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if… — Toni Morrison
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up… — Jose Saramago
Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on… — James A. Baldwin
When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I… — Gretchen Rubin
Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational… — J D Salinger
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. — Milan Kundera
Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must… — Sarah MacLean
Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to… — Isaac Marion
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, …… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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