#arrival

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. ↗

— Chaim Weizmann

#convinced #day #einstein #every #every day

I had a dream the other night,” Prospect says. He looks at Lito. “You were in it.” “I was?” The young man is clearly flattered. “Yes, you were.” “What happened. In the dream?” “We were wandering through the cafeteria of Infinity in the middle of the night. It was dark and scary, so we opened a door and started climbing the stairs. The stairs went on forever but finally we got to the top. We were at a special place high above the city.” “Cool. Were there time travel machines and Cyborgs and cool shit like that?” “No Cyborgs. We were on the rooftop of Infinity. We looked out over the sparkling city. It was beautiful. We wanted to be part of it all. And so we did what we thought we had to do: we jumped.” “Oh man. Dang. Did we splatter on the sidewalk?” “We didn’t fall. We hovered. And then we flew.” “We flew? Sweet.” This is Prospect’s final gift to Lito. A story about the two of them. A story about the future. ↗

— Dwight Okita

#beauty

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#life #moving-forward #life

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. ↗

— John Dyer

#amazing #amazing thing #arrival #departure #harbour

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. ↗

— John Hume

#background #banks #before #borrow #class

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. ↗

— Paul Allen

#apply #arrival #coming #hasten #horizon

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

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

#army #arrival #comrades #conjecture #could