#arrived

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#anchor #arrived #come #continued #course

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#because #being #had #headache #late-night

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. ↗

— Danny Kaye

#bet #broadway #clubs #few #hundred

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. ↗

— Henry Knox

#cannot #forced #happiness #humiliation #line

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#berlin #boxes #circle #event #eyes

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#arrived #elect #equality #feel #i

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#chaos #intellectual

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#arrived #because #before #europe #extremely

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. ↗

— Peter Weir

#any #arrived #banal #become #case