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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. -- John Dewey
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. -- George Will
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. -- Baltasar Gracian
I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days. -- Roger Moore
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. -- Albert Pike
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. -- David Bowie
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. -- Jackson Pollock
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. -- John Wooden
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. -- Henry Bolingbroke
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
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
The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!' -- John Hench
Arriving there is what you are destined for -- C.P. Cavafy
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. -- Laozi
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. -- Atul Gawande
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. -- Barbara Cartland
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. -- Calamity Jane
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace. -- Josh McDowell
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. -- Ron Perlman
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
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem. -- Amy Lowell
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
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. -- Amar Bose
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
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. -- Joanna Southcott
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
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 no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. -- Italo Calvino
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
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. -- John Avlon
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. -- George Washington
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. -- Laozi
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. -- Ted Cruz
The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet. -- Yehuda Berg
If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth. -- Basmah bint Saud
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
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. -- Andrew Motion
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
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
Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. -- Dennis Prager
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. -- Charles Stanley
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood. -- Kevin Powers
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
Striving can be more important than arriving. -- Marvin J. Ashton
I travel, always arriving in the same place. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving. -- Sarah Lewis
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. -- Jackson Pollock
Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination. -- Chris Hadfield
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. -- Bernhard Schlink
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city. -- Bill Bryson
You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches. -- Curt Siodmak
I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave. -- Charlotte Eriksson
Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country. -- Yoko Ono
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving. -- Richard Linklater
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid. -- Ali Farahnakian
The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time. -- Kurt Elling
One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so. -- Aminu Kano
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now. -- William Gibson
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. -- John Amery
When people know the desired destination, theyâ??re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there. -- Chip Heath
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age." -- Marshall McLuhan
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. -- Marshall McLuhan
There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. -- David Axelrod
The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction. -- William Zinsser
Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses. -- Ernst Mach
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. -- Alan Paton
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience. -- Brit Marling
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. -- Frank Moore Colby
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief. -- D. Elton Trueblood
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere. -- Nhat Hanh
A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei). -- Laozi
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. -- Milan Kundera
Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying. -- John Dewey
It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment. -- Ted Alexandro
[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here -- Billy Connolly
Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time. -- Amit Kalantri
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. -- George Washington
Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater. -- Peter Higgs
Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you. -- Bryant McGill
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving -- Napoleon Hill
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise. -- Plato
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
Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment. -- Benjamin Graham
You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room. -- Wolf Blitzer
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity. -- Elbert Hubbard
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution. -- Van Jones
I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food -- Zach Galifianakis
And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for. -- Carl Sandburg
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely -- Jackson Pollock
The creative road is a tough one to follow. There are many bumps and detours we hit before arriving at the end of our journey -- Tonesha Reese
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving. -- Napoleon Hill
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. -- Pierre Jean George Cabanis
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth. -- Wilferd Peterson
I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with. -- Barack Obama
There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it. -- Diane von Furstenberg
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 live forever. -- Isaac Marion
Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out. -- Apolo Ohno
Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey. -- Terry Pratchett
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. -- Walt Whitman
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher. -- George Edward Woodberry
There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics. -- Kim Smith
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer
Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving. -- Marvin J. Ashton
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the otherâ??s welcome. -- Derek Walcott
The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich. -- Rush Limbaugh
The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich. -- Rush Limbaugh
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. -- George Eliot
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. -- Mary Doria Russell
He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts -- Plato
I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!' -- Martin Freeman
Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William -- Gena Showalter
Thatâ??s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,â? he said with a wink. â??Once youâ??re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again. -- Brandon Sanderson
Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. -- Donna Farhi
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so. -- Neil Gaiman
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 minutes late, but triumphantly in command. -- Douglas Adams
When you feel the need to have the right person show up in your life, affirm: 'I know the right person is arriving in divine order at precisely the perfect time.' -- Wayne Dyer

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