Departure Quotes

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  There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Love Is, Depth, Depth Of Love

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.730, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

  Tori Amos

  Inspiration, Order, Different

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• 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

  Today, Tomorrow, Unexpected

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• The only certain freedom's in departure.

  Robert Frost

  Certain

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

  Antonio Porchia

  Travel, Adventure

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Waking Life, Arriving

  "Fictional character: Boat Car Guy". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

  Petrarch

  Curiosity, World, This World

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, 4th Of July, Independence

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  William A. Henry III

  Slippery Slope, Firsts, Facts

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• I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

  Plato

  Life And Death, Greek, God Knows

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

  Socrates

  Change, Death, Wisdom

  Charles Walters, Socrates (1994). “Socrates' - the Lost Dialogues”

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• The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

  Elihu Root

  War, Wish, Facts

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

  Ellen Terry

  Skills, Circles, Differences

  Ellen Terry (Dame) (19??). “The story of my life”

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• My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

  Gene Tierney

  Swag, Hollywood, Walks

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

  Sean Connery

  Accents

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• There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

  Kenneth Lay

  Problem, Economy, No Problem

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• The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

  Tom Wopat

  Education, Country, Rocks

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• Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Voice, Misery, Lost

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sadness, Reality, Men

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• But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

  Jerry Garcia

  Movie, Cousin, Grateful

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• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Decision, Leaving, Shadow

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!

  Keorapetse Kgositsile

  Moving, Past, Knows

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