Arrive Quotes

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. (Charles Darwin)
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. View quote
Anaïs Nin
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
All good ideas arrive by chance. View quote
Max Ernst
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. View quote
T. S. Eliot
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. View quote
André Gide
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. View quote
Albert Einstein
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. View quote
Craig Raine
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. (Ralph Ellison)
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. View quote
F. H. Bradley
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. View quote
Charles Lamb
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. View quote
Leó Szilárd
Through doubt we arrive at the truth. View quote
Cicero
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope. View quote
Maya Angelou
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird. In his good time. View quote
Robert Browning
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves their stronger, riskier selves. View quote
Toni Morrison
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. View quote
José Mourinho
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In addition, a century or more of efforts to arrive at a feasible and politically acceptable mix of market and nonmarket elements has not produced a definitive, stable, or uniform solution. View quote
Robert A. Dahl