#arrival

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#anything #appointments #arrivals #checks #chris

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 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

#awaiting #decide #destiny #ecological #exhaust

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

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#fresh #i #i can #land #lucky

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