Quotes and Sayings About Departure
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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 -
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.
-- Beth Moore -
Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.
-- Bill Maher -
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
-- Billy Collins -
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
-- Boris Pasternak -
There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.
-- Cesar Pelli -
As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.
-- Claire Messud -
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
-- Coco Chanel -
Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
-- Coco Chanel -
It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off
-- David Blunkett -
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.
-- Edgar Alwin Payne -
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom
-- Edward Sapir -
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 -
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.
-- Federico Fellini -
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
-- Gene Tierney -
Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.
-- Henry Peach Robinson -
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.
-- James Connolly -
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
-- Joe Biden -
'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.
-- Jon Landau -
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 -
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.
-- Joseph Glanvill -
It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.
-- Judith Martin
