Departure Quotes

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

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.

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

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

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.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

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

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

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

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

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

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

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