Departure Quotes

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

Great, Enemy, Against

The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost

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

Themselves, Criticism, Fury

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

Thought, Idea, Point

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.
Edmund Burke

Great, Society, Justice

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

Beauty, Themselves, Actions

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

Change, Peace, Men

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

Mean, Find, Grateful

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

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

Different, Sometimes, Order

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.
David Bowie

Good, Home, Person

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, May, Leaving

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
Joe Biden

Awesome, Created, Arafat

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

Lost, Since, Voice

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.
King Hussein I

Life, God, Fear

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

Hollywood, Understood, Cracking

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

Away, English, Accent

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

Point, Journey, Poet

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

Point, Lead, Alike

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

Health, Attitude, Mother

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

Time, Woman, Playing

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

Often, Coming, Follow

'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

Work, Again, American

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.
Cory Monteith

Wanted, Tell, Off

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

Peace, Nature, War

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

Problems, Jeff, Absolutely

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

Time, Amazing, Short

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

Doubt, Point, Return

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.
Randy Harrison

Funny, Time, Gay

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
William Henry Ashley

Men, Made, After

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