Quotes with arrival

  • In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
  • If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

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  • Erwin W. Lutzer At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • C. S. Lewis If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Alan Cohen If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
    A Bend in the River (2012) 52
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Adela Rogers St. Johns The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
    Adela Rogers St. Johns
     
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  • Freeman Dyson The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Antonio Guterres We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
    Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis is 'Lagging Far Behind.' (2015)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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